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Preserved Peaches

Peaches are steamed 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: Peach and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,308 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Preserved Peaches

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately warm oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare the peaches and place them in a steamer over boiling water, covering tightly.

  2. Steam for 15 minutes or until easily pierced with a fork.

  3. Prepare a syrup using high-quality sugar.

Dip and pack

  1. As the peaches steam, drop each peach into the syrup for a few seconds.

  2. Remove the peaches and place them in cans.

Syrup and seal

  1. Skim the syrup well before pouring it over the fruit.

  2. Pour the hot syrup over the fruit in the cans and seal immediately.

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 + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 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

Peaches
The fruit itself; steaming softens its flesh until it is easily pierced while it holds its shape.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, in the syrup, helps preserve its flavour and texture.

The step that matters

Pour the hot syrup over the fruit in the cans and seal immediately.. Filling with hot syrup and sealing at once drives out air and forms a vacuum as the cans cool. This limits spoilage by microbes that could re-enter the cans.

“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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