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Fruit Jellies

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and blackberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 278 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Fruit Jellies

Oven, in the book's wordsA gentle oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather just ripe fruit and remove any blemishes.

  2. Place the fruit in a jar and set it in a pot of water over medium heat.

  3. Simmer the water until it reaches two-thirds up the jar, covering it closely.

  4. Alternatively, place the fruit in a preserving pan and stir until the juice flows freely.

  5. You can also set the jar in a gentle oven until the juice is well drawn.

  6. Pour off the juice and let the fruit drip slowly through a clean cloth or flannel bag.

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. Raspberry + blackberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together278 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Strawberry + blackberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together222 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  3. Apple + quincetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Raspberry + strawberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together815 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  5. Apple + strawberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, crab, quince, sugar):

  1. Peachfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, crab, quince, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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