Name: Picante Peach Cobbler
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 24- ounce jar picante sauce; 1 cup packed brown sugar; ¼ cup all-purpose flour; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ⅛ teaspoon salt; 1 can (29 ounces) cling peach halves , drained and chopped; ½ package (15 ounces) refrigerated pie crust (1 crust)

Why it works: Cinnamon and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 625 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Picante Peach Cobbler

Serves 8

Oven400°F

Time40 minutes

Ingredients

24- ounce jar picante sauce
1 cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 can (29 ounces) cling peach halves , drained and chopped
½ package (15 ounces) refrigerated pie crust (1 crust)

Directions

Make the filling

Mix picante sauce, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt in a 3-quart saucepan.
Cook and stir over medium heat until the mixture boils.
Reduce heat to low.
Cook and stir for 2 minutes more or until the mixture thickens.
Stir in peaches, remove from heat, and let cool.
Pour the mixture into a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate.

Top and bake

Heat the oven to 400°F.
Let the pie crust stand at room temperature for 15 minutes or until it is easy to handle.
Gently place the pie crust over the sauce mixture and crimp or roll the edges to seal.
Cut slits in the crust with a knife.
Bake for 40 minutes or until the crust is golden brown.
Serve warm.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

569Calories

14 gProtein

2 gFat

124 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Peach	1 medium (150g)	59
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Pie Crust	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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.

Cinnamon + peachtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together625 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,341 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together30,779 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,147 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Picante sauce: Provides the liquid base and savory heat that flavours the filling.
Brown sugar: Adds sweetness and molasses flavour, and helps the filling turn glossy and saucy.
All-purpose flour: Thickens the sauce as it cooks, giving the filling a set, spoonable body.
Cling peach halves: Supply the fruit, moisture and sweetness that make up most of the filling.
Refrigerated pie crust: Forms the golden, flaky top that seals the filling while baking.

The step that matters

Cool the filling before topping. Cooking the sauce with flour thickens it, but a hot filling under pastry can soften the crust from below and make it greasy. Letting it cool after adding the peaches helps the crust bake crisp.

Swap the peach

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

Raisinfits better
Vanillafits better
Blueberryfits better
Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sugar, flour, cinnamon. 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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Picante Peach Cobbler