Why it works: Sugar and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,101 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Raspberry Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cook the raspberries to extract the juice.
Make the jelly
Combine 5 pounds of sugar with 6 quarts of juice in a pot.
Bring the mixture to a boil and cook until it reaches the desired jelly consistency.
Pour the jelly into sterilized jars and seal.
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.
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Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,101 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Sweetens the jelly and helps it set by binding water and forming a gel with the fruit pectin.
- Raspberry juice
- Provides the main liquid, flavor and natural pectin that the jelly needs to set.
The step that matters
Cooking to the desired consistency. Jelly sets as its sugar and pectin concentration rises during boiling, and cooking too briefly leaves it runny while cooking too long can make it stiff or sugary. Judging the set carefully is what determines the final texture.
“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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