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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and pear match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 245 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Canning Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil cherries for 5 minutes.

  2. Boil raspberries for 6 minutes.

  3. Boil blackberries for 6 minutes.

  4. Boil plums for 10 minutes.

  5. Boil strawberries for 8 minutes.

  6. Boil whortleberries for 5 minutes.

  7. Boil sliced pie plant for 10 minutes.

  8. Boil small sour pears whole for 30 minutes.

  9. Boil Bartlett pears in halves for 20 minutes.

  10. Boil peaches for 8 minutes.

  11. Boil whole peaches for 15 minutes.

  12. Boil sliced pineapple for 15 minutes.

  13. Boil whole Siberian crab-apples for 25 minutes.

  14. Boil quartered sour apples for 10 minutes.

  15. Boil ripe currants for 6 minutes.

  16. Boil wild grapes for 10 minutes.

  17. Boil tomatoes for 20 minutes.

  18. If there is no juice, add a little water to start the juice and prevent the sugar from burning.

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. Plum + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Pear + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Plum + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Pear + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Plum + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (plum, pear, bartlett pear, peach, pineapple, crab, apple):

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Quincefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against plum, pear, bartlett pear, peach, pineapple, crab, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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