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Glazed Apples

A dessert of simmered apples glazed with syrup, apricot marmalade, and red‑currant jelly, garnished with angelica.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Glazed Apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Pare and core the apples.

  2. Simmer the apples gently in water with sugar and lemon juice until tender.

Syrup and glaze

  1. Drain the apples well and pour syrup over them, then cover closely.

  2. Once cold, coat the apples with apricot marmalade.

  3. Fill the cavities with red-currant jelly.

  4. Decorate with strips or leaves of angelica.

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. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Lemon + angelicatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Apricot + angelicatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Apple + angelicatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main body and texture that softens when simmered until tender.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and helps the apples hold their shape.
Sugar
Sweetens the poaching liquid and syrup, balancing the tartness of the fruit.
Apricot jam or marmalade
Forms a glossy coating that adds sweetness and sheen to the cooled apples.
Red-currant jelly
Fills the cavities with a tart, set jelly that contrasts with the sweet apple.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until tender. Simmering gently keeps the apples whole and evenly cooked; a hard boil breaks the flesh apart before it softens through, so the apples lose their shape.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, lemon, syrup, apricot, angelica, sugar):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, lemon, syrup, apricot, angelica, 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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