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To Can Quinces

This recipe preserves quinces by canning them in a sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,344 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

To Can Quinces

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup and cook the quinces

  1. Combine sugar and water in a pot and bring to a boil.

  2. Add the sliced quinces to the boiling syrup.

Fill and seal the jars

  1. Prepare jars by placing them in a pan of boiling water on the stove.

  2. Once the quinces are clear and tender, quickly fill the jars with the fruit and syrup, ensuring the syrup overflows.

  3. Seal the jars tightly as quickly as possible.

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. Sugar + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

  2. Quince + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,444 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Quince + coffeetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

What each ingredient does

Quinces
The main fruit; cooking softens it and turns it translucent in the syrup.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and syrup and helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Filling and sealing the jars quickly. Filling with hot fruit and syrup and sealing promptly helps keep the contents hot and limits air and microbes entering the jar as it cools.

Swap the quince

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Quincethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, coffee. 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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