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Muscle- Plum Cheese

A preserve made by cooking plums with sugar until the juice evaporates.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,313 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Muscle- Plum Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the plums

  1. Bake the plums in a stone jar until soft.

  2. Remove the stones and kernels from the plums.

Make the jam

  1. Pour half the juice over the sugar in a pot.

  2. Melt and simmer the mixture for a few minutes, then skim off any foam.

  3. Add the plums to the pot and cook gently, stirring constantly until the juice evaporates.

  4. Pour the mixture into small molds, pattypans, or saucers.

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. Plum + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,313 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

Plums
Provide the fruit flavor, pectin, and bulk that form the body of the jam.
Sugar
Sweetens the jam and, as it thickens, helps it set and preserves it.

The step that matters

Cooking the plums until the juice evaporates. Stirring constantly over gentle heat keeps the sugar and fruit from scorching on the bottom of the pot, while the water evaporates and the mixture concentrates enough to set.

“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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