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Jellied Quince

A preserved quince dessert made by boiling quince slices with sugar to form a jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Jellied Quince

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the quinces very thin.

  2. Weigh an equal quantity of sugar.

Make the jelly

  1. Boil the quince slices in enough water to cover them until very tender.

  2. Remove the slices from the kettle and add the water used to boil the rinds and cores.

  3. Strain the mixture through a jelly bag.

  4. Add the sugar to the strained liquid and boil until it reaches a jelly consistency.

Finish

  1. Add the quince slices and boil for about five minutes.

  2. Pour into jelly tumblers, ensuring the slices remain whole.

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 natural pectin and acid that help the liquid set into a jelly.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, once boiled, helps the liquid thicken and set.

The step that matters

Boiling the sugar to jelly consistency. Pectin sets only when enough sugar and acid are concentrated by boiling. Stop too early and the jelly stays runny; boil too long and it becomes stiff and can turn cloudy or caramelised.

“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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