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Richer Marmalade

A quince marmalade made by boiling quinces, extracting juice, and cooking with sugar until thick.

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 ↓

Richer Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Boil quinces until soft, about 20 to 40 minutes.

  2. Extract juice from the quinces.

Make the marmalade

  1. Combine the juice and sugar in a pot.

  2. Cook the mixture until it thickens, about 30 minutes.

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 natural pectin and acid, which help the marmalade set and give it a tart flavor.
Sugar
Sweetens the marmalade, preserves it, and helps it thicken into a spreadable set.

The step that matters

Cook until the mixture thickens. Sugar, pectin and acid set together only at a high sugar concentration. Stopping too early leaves the marmalade runny, while cooking too long makes it stiff and can scorch or darken its flavor.

“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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