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Peaches Sliced

Peaches sliced and preserved in a sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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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 ↓

Peaches Sliced

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cans

  1. Wash the peaches.

  2. Fill the cans with the peaches.

  3. Prepare a syrup containing at least 32% sugar.

  4. Fill the cans with syrup to within ¼ inch of the top.

  5. Seal the cans, leaving a small hole at the top.

Heat and seal

  1. Place the cans in boiling water for 7 minutes.

  2. Remove the cans.

  3. Seal the hole.

  4. Cook the cans in boiling water for 20 minutes, adjusting the time based on the ripeness of the peaches.

Cool

  1. Cool the cans in cold water.

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. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Peach + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe peaches
Provide the fruit, whose flesh softens during cooking to become tender.
Syrup (32% sugar solution)
Adds sweetness and moisture, helping the peaches keep their flavour and shape in the can.

The step that matters

Adjust the 20-minute cooking time to the ripeness of the peaches. Riper peaches soften faster in hot water, while firmer fruit needs longer. Matching the time to ripeness helps prevent peaches that are mushy or still hard.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Pearfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, sugar. 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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