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Preserved Quince

A sweet preserve made by boiling quince with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Preserved Quince

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cover the quince with water in a pot.

  2. Boil for about 30 minutes.

  3. Cut the quince into very thin slices.

Add sugar and jar

  1. Add the sugar to the quince without boiling first.

  2. Transfer the mixture into large jelly glasses.

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

Quince
Supplies the fruit and natural pectin that help the preserve set.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit, draws out moisture and helps the preserve keep.

The step that matters

Add the sugar to the quince without boiling first.. Sugar must be mixed in evenly so it dissolves fully and does not scorch on the bottom of the pot. Sugar also draws water out of the fruit, which shapes the final texture and helps the preserve keep.

“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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