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Preserved Peaches— Freestones

A sweet preserve made by cooking freestone peaches in a sugar syrup until 218°F.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Preserved Peaches— Freestones

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Blanch the peaches in boiling water for about 3 minutes.

Make the preserves

  1. Make a syrup by boiling the sugar and water together.

  2. Add the peaches to the syrup.

  3. Cook until the temperature reaches 218°F (103°C).

Cool and process

  1. Cool the peach preserves as quickly as possible.

  2. Process the preserves for 40 minutes at 180°F (82°C).

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

Peaches
Provide the fruit, flavor, and bulk of the preserves.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the preserves and helps preserve them by binding water.

The step that matters

Cook until the temperature reaches 218°F (103°C). Sugar concentration must be high enough to set and preserve the fruit. Stopping early leaves a thin, spoilable syrup, while overcooking makes it stiff and candy-like.

“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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