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Jelly Moulded with Chebeibs

A molded jelly made with fresh fruit, optional preserved fruits or brandy cherries, and optional whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Jelly Moulded with Chebeibs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mould

  1. Prepare the mould by rounding the sides, remembering it will be reversed when turned out.

Make the jelly

  1. Pour in a layer of jelly to make the fruit adhere, then let it set.

  2. Add another layer of fruit and jelly until the mould is full.

  3. Boil peaches, apricots, and plums in a little clear syrup before adding them to the jelly.

  4. Add strawberries, raspberries, grapes, cherries, and currants raw.

Chill and serve

  1. If possible, chill the mould in ice until ready to serve.

  2. To unmould, wring a cloth in boiling water, wrap it around the mould for a minute, and carefully turn out the jelly.

  3. Garnish with the same fruit used in the jelly or substitute with whipped cream.

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.

Explore the science

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. Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Apricot + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Apple + grapetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Plum + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Jelly
Sets around the fruit, holding the layers together and giving the molded dessert its structure.
Fresh fruit
Provides flavour, colour and texture as the main content suspended within the set jelly.

The step that matters

Let each layer set before adding the next. Fruit poured into jelly that has not set will sink or float unevenly, and a layer added too soon may mix into the previous one, spoiling the molded layers.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, apricot, plum, apple, grape, brandy, cream):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, apricot, plum, apple, grape, brandy, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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