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Jelly Sauce

A sauce made by melting quince jelly with lemon juice and water, then straining and serving hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Quince and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 336 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Jelly Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a saucepan, combine the quince jelly, lemon juice, and water.

  2. Stir over medium heat until the jelly is completely melted.

  3. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.

Serve

  1. Use the sauce while hot.

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 + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together336 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Quince jelly
Provides the sweetness and fruity flavour that forms the body of the sauce.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the quince jelly.
Water
Thins the melted jelly into a pourable sauce.

The step that matters

Stir over medium heat until the jelly is completely melted. Heating gently and stirring lets the jelly dissolve evenly without scorching on the pan base. Any unmelted lumps would leave a grainy texture that the sieve may not fully smooth out.

“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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