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To Preserve Peaches

This recipe preserves peaches by layering with sugar, boiling, and sealing in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,308 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

To Preserve Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Pare the peaches and weigh them.

  2. In a preserving kettle, layer sugar and peaches until all fruit is used.

Make the syrup and cook the peaches

  1. Heat over the fire until the sugar dissolves completely.

  2. Boil the peaches until they are clear.

  3. Remove the peaches piece by piece.

  4. Spread them on a dish to cool.

  5. Boil the remaining syrup until it jellies.

Jar and seal

  1. Once the peaches are cold, fill jars half full with peaches and top with boiling syrup.

  2. Cover the jars with a thin cloth for a short time.

  3. Seal with brandied paper and corks.

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. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Clear-stone yellow peaches
Provide the fruit that softens and turns clear during cooking, forming the preserve.
Sugar
Preserves the fruit and dissolves into the syrup that sweetens it and helps it keep.

The step that matters

Boil the remaining syrup until it jellies. Sugar concentration determines whether the syrup sets and keeps the fruit preserved. Too little boiling leaves it thin and prone to spoiling, while overcooking can make it hard and sugary.

“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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