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Guava Jelly {Amrut-Jcll}

A preserved sweet made from guava juice, sugar, lime juice, and water, boiled and bottled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Guava and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Guava Jelly {Amrut-Jcll}

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Slice the guavas and place them in a stone jar with water.

  2. Seal the jar to make it air-tight.

  3. Boil the jar in a large pot for 6 hours.

  4. Strain the juice through muslin.

Make the jelly

  1. Make a syrup with the sugar and lime juice.

  2. Mix the syrup with the guava juice.

  3. Boil until it reaches the desired consistency.

  4. Strain again.

  5. Bottle.

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. Guava + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Guava + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together115 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 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

Guavas
Provide the fruit juice and natural pectin that help the jelly set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and body, and helps the jelly set when boiled down.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens flavour and supports pectin setting.

The step that matters

Boil until it reaches the desired consistency. Boiling concentrates the sugar and pectin so the jelly sets. Cooking too briefly leaves it runny, while overcooking can make it stiff or grainy. Judge the set carefully.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (guava, sugar):

  1. Pineapplefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against guava, sugar. 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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