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Peach Blossom Syrup

A syrup made from peach, raspberry, and lemon juices with juniper spirits, foam, tincture, and syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and raspberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 190 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peach Blossom Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine peach juice, raspberry juice, and lemon juice in a large mixing bowl.

  2. Add the compound spirits of juniper and mix well.

  3. Stir in the foam and compound tincture cudbear until fully incorporated.

  4. Gradually add the syrup, mixing until smooth.

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 + raspberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Raspberry + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Peach + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Spirit + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Peach + spirittop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 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

Peach juice
Provides the main fruity flavour that gives the syrup its character.
Raspberry juice
Adds fruity depth and a tart berry note to the blend.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances sweetness.
Compound spirits of juniper
Contributes aromatic, herbal notes to the finished syrup.
Compound tincture cudbear
Adds colour to the syrup.
Syrup
Provides sweetness and body to the finished mixture.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, raspberry, spirit, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Blackberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, raspberry, spirit, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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