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Pike Apple Marmalade

A marmalade made from pike apples and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Pike Apple Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the chopped pike apples and granulated sugar in an earthen dish.

  2. Let the mixture sit in a cool place for 24 hours.

Cook and can

  1. Heat the mixture thoroughly and then can it.

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. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Pike apples
Provide the fruit base and pectin-rich pulp that gives the marmalade its body as it cooks.
Granulated sugar
Draws moisture out of the fruit and, with heat, thickens the mixture while preserving it.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture thoroughly before canning. Sugar and fruit must be heated enough to dissolve and thicken fully; under-heated mixtures may not set properly and can spoil in storage.

“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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