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Compote of Apple Jelly

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Apple and angelica work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Compote of Apple Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare apple jelly according to your preferred recipe.

  2. Pour the jelly into small molds and let it set until firm.

  3. Once set, turn the jelly out onto a serving dish in a symmetrical arrangement.

  4. Decorate with colored preserves or green 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.

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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. 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

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