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Mango and Pineapple Marmalade

A fruit marmalade made from chopped mango, pineapple, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 224 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Mango and Pineapple Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine mango, pineapple, sugar, and water in a pot.

  2. Boil the mixture until it thickens.

  3. Pour the marmalade into jars and seal.

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. Mango + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Mango + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together561 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mango
Provides the main fruit flavour and body as it breaks down into the spread.
Pineapple
Adds acidity and bright flavour, and its pectin-containing fruit helps the mixture thicken.
Sugar
Sweetens the marmalade and helps it thicken and keep as it cooks down.

The step that matters

Boiling until it thickens. Cooking long enough lets water evaporate and sugar concentrate, so the mixture sets when cool. Stopping too early leaves a runny marmalade that may spoil sooner in storage.

Swap the mango

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, 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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