Name: Sliced Pr Aches and Apricots
Ingredients: firm cling peaches or firm free peaches; water (for blanching); 30 degree syrup (sugar syrup); rubber rings for jars

Why it works: Syrup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sliced Pr Aches and Apricots

Ingredients

firm cling peaches or firm free peaches
water (for blanching)
30 degree syrup (sugar syrup)
rubber rings for jars

Directions

Blanch cling peaches for 8 to 10 minutes and free peaches for 4 to 6 minutes in water at 200°F (93°C).
Plunge the blanched peaches into cold water for 10 minutes.
Drain the peaches well and pack them into jars with the pit side down as solidly as possible.
Cover the peaches with 30 degree syrup.
Place the rubber ring on the jar to help with sealing.
Pass the jars through the exhaust box for 3 minutes.
Add hot syrup to any jars that are not full, then cap promptly and seal tightly.
Process ½ gallon jars for 55 minutes and gallon jars for 70 minutes at 190°F (88°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.

Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,842 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + syruptop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together210 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).