Why it works: Raspberry and apple work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 282 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
Raspberry Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Cover the berries with boiling water and stir while cooking.
Strain the mixture as usual.
Add the juice of yellow transparent apples to the raspberry juice.
Make the jelly
Combine the juices with sugar and boil as you would for apple jelly.
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.
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Raspberry + appletop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together282 recipes
Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
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Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together16,478 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,101 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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
- Raspberry juice
- Provides the main liquid base, flavor and color of the jelly.
- Yellow transparent apple juice
- Adds pectin, which helps the jelly set into a gel.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps the pectin and acid form a firm gel.
The step that matters
Boiling the combined juices with sugar. Pectin, acid and sugar only set into a gel when the mixture reaches the right concentration at a rolling boil. Boiling too briefly leaves the jelly runny, while boiling too long can make it stiff and dull in flavor.
Swap the raspberry
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar):
- Pearfits better
- Vanillafits better
- Apricotfits better
- Raspberrythe original
Fit is the average pairing score against apple, 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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