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To Preserve Purple Plums

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and plum are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,313 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

To Preserve Purple Plums

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a syrup with clean brown sugar.

  2. Clarify the syrup until it is perfectly clear and boiling hot.

  3. Pour the syrup over the plums after removing any unsound ones and stems.

  4. Let the plums sit in the syrup for two days.

  5. Drain the syrup, make it boiling hot, skim it, and pour it over the plums again.

  6. Let the plums sit in the syrup for another day or two.

  7. Put the plums in a preserving kettle over the fire and simmer gently.

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 + plumtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,313 recipes

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

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