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Quince Marmalade

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

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 ↓

Quince Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel, slice, and weigh the quince fruit.

  2. Place the fruit in a preserving kettle and cover with water.

  3. Boil and mash the fruit.

Make the marmalade

  1. Add ½ pound of sugar for every pound of fruit and boil for about 30 minutes, stirring constantly.

  2. Add any desired flavoring, though the natural flavor of quince is usually preferred.

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 fruit
Provides the pectin and tart flavor that give the marmalade its body and aroma.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps thicken the mixture as it reduces and sets.

The step that matters

Boiling with constant stirring. Sugar and fruit can scorch on the bottom of the kettle if not stirred constantly. Scorching gives a burnt taste and can stop the mixture from thickening properly.

“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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