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Quince Marmalade

A preserve made from quince fruit and sugar, boiled 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 ↓

Quince Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Wash, peel, core, and cut the quinces into small pieces.

  2. Place the parings and cores in a kettle and cover with water.

  3. Boil slowly until soft.

Make the marmalade

  1. In a separate porcelain kettle, combine the quinces and sugar.

  2. Strain the liquid from the parings over the quinces and sugar, then cover.

  3. Boil the mixture over medium heat until smooth and thick, stirring frequently to prevent sticking.

Jar

  1. Once cooled, transfer the marmalade into glass jars.

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 the fruit body and natural pectin that help the marmalade set and thicken.
White sugar
Sweetens the marmalade and helps it thicken and keep as it cooks down.

The step that matters

Boiling the quince and sugar until thick. Stirring frequently keeps the sugar and fruit from scorching on the bottom of the kettle. Cooking until smooth and thick lets the pectin and sugar set the marmalade properly.

“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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