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Frozen Peaches

A frozen dessert made from ripe peaches, sugar, water, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Evora Bucknum Perkins · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 2 ingredients
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Frozen Peaches

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Frozen Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub 1 qt. of ripe peaches through a colander; add cold syrup made by boiling 1-1½ cups sugar and 1 qt. water together for 10 minutes. Freeze.

  2. Stir in 1-2 cups whipped and slightly sweetened cream when the dasher is removed. Repack and ripen.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

159Calories
2 gProtein
6 gFat
27 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

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

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

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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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  3. Cream + peachtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the main fruit flavor and moisture that give the dessert its body.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and lowers the freezing point, keeping the dessert soft rather than rock hard.
Cream
Adds fat for a smooth, creamy texture and makes the frozen dessert feel rich.

The step that matters

Stir in the whipped cream when the dasher is removed. The partly frozen mixture needs to be stiff enough to hold the whipped cream without deflating it. Stirring in cream at the right stage keeps the dessert light and airy rather than dense and icy.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. 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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