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Peach Water Ice

A chilled dessert made from peaches, water, lemon juice, and syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Peach Water Ice

Why it works: Peach and lemon work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 947 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Peach Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Blanch the peaches in water if they are not ripe enough.

  2. Cut the peaches into small pieces and remove the pits.

  3. Boil the peach pieces in water until soft.

  4. Strain the mixture through a sieve.

Finish and freeze

  1. Add lemon juice and sweeten with syrup to taste.

  2. Pour into a freezing pot and churn until frozen.

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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Explore the science

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 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 main flavor and the fruit pulp that gives the ice its body.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the peach flavor and balances the sweetness.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and, by lowering the freezing point, helps keep the ice soft.

The step that matters

Churning until frozen. Churning breaks up ice crystals as the mixture freezes, keeping the texture smooth rather than hard and icy. Stop only once it is thick and frozen enough to hold its shape.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, 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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