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Orahgb Marmalade

A marmalade made from Seville oranges, juicy lemons, and sifted sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orahgb Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peel

  1. Grate the rinds of the Seville oranges lightly.

  2. Cut the grated rinds into quarters, removing the flesh.

  3. Use a small spoon to remove the pips and loose inner skin from the flesh.

  4. Soak the rinds in cold water overnight.

  5. Boil the rinds for 20 minutes, changing the water halfway.

  6. Once tender, drain the rinds.

  7. Slice the rinds thin.

Make and jar the marmalade

  1. Add 8 ounces of rinds for each pound of pulp and juice.

  2. Add 1.5 pounds of sugar.

  3. Boil the mixture quickly for 30 minutes, skimming as needed.

  4. Pour the marmalade into jars.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they 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

Seville oranges
Their peel and pectin-rich pulp give the marmalade its bitter flavour and set.
Sifted sugar
Sweetens the marmalade and helps it set when boiled with the fruit.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture quickly for 30 minutes. Rapid boiling drives off water and concentrates the sugar and pectin so the marmalade sets. Skimming removes scum that would cloud it.

“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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