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Another M Ay to Make Quince Marmalade

A quince marmalade made by boiling quince with sugar and water, then preserving in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Quince and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,444 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Another M Ay to Make Quince Marmalade

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare and quarter the quinces.

  2. Weigh an equal quantity of sugar.

  3. Combine 4 pounds of sugar with 1 quart of water in a pot.

  4. Boil the mixture.

  5. Skim off any foam.

Soften the quinces

  1. Place the quinces in a stone jar.

  2. Add 1 cup of water at the bottom of the jar.

  3. Pack the quinces with a little sugar between them.

  4. Cover the jar tightly.

  5. Set the jar in a cool oven or on a stove.

  6. Wait until the quinces soften and turn red.

Make the marmalade

  1. Pour the fruit syrup and 1 quart of quince juice into a preserving pan.

  2. Boil the mixture until the marmalade is ready.

  3. Break up any lumps of fruit with a ladle.

  4. For juice, stew the quinces in the jar.

  5. Squeeze the stew through cheesecloth that has been dipped in boiling water.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Quince + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,444 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Quinces
Provide the fruit body and natural pectin that helps the marmalade set.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, when boiled, helps the syrup thicken and set.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture until the marmalade is ready. Sugar and pectin must reach a concentration that gels on cooling. Stopping too early leaves a runny marmalade, while boiling too long can darken the fruit and make it stiff.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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