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Peach Cobbler

A baked dessert of peaches topped with pastry crust, butter, and syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup 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 ↓

Peach Cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Roll out the pastry dough and line a deep, square baking pan.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the pan with peeled peaches and sweeten to taste.

  2. Add a walnut-sized piece of butter and 1 tablespoon of syrup.

  3. Cover with an upper crust and bake for 30 minutes or until done.

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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Peach + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Peach + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Walnut + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Rich pastry dough
Forms the crust that holds the fruit and browns in the oven.
Peeled peaches
Provide the main fruit filling that softens and releases juice as it bakes.
Sugar
Sweetens the peaches and helps create syrupy juices during baking.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries flavor and helps the filling taste rounded.
Syrup
Adds extra sweetness and moisture to the filling.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, sugar, butter, 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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