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Jellied Apples

A dessert of boiled apples set in a sugar syrup and cooled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 16,478 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Jellied Apples

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut apples in halves and core them.

  2. Place apples in a baking pan, cored side up.

  3. Pour cold water and sugar over the apples.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover the pan and boil gently for 30 minutes.

  2. Remove the cover and bake in the oven until brown.

  3. Serve cold.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16,478 recipes

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

Apple and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 16,478 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Tart apples
Provide the main body and tart flavor that the sugar syrup balances.
Sugar
Sweetens the dish and helps form a thick, syrupy coating on the apples.
Cold water
Creates the syrup with the sugar and keeps the apples moist while they cook.

The step that matters

Covered gentle boil before uncovering. Gentle heat under a cover softens the apples and dissolves the sugar into the water without breaking the fruit apart. Keeping the cover on during this stage holds in steam so the apples cook through evenly before the surface is browned in the oven.

“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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