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Peach Butter with Cider

Peach butter made by cooking peaches with cider until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and cider work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Peach Butter with Cider

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Cook the peaches until soft.

  2. Strain the peaches to remove skins and pits.

Make the peach butter

  1. Heat the boiled cider in a kettle.

  2. Add the strained peaches to the cider and stir well.

  3. Cook the mixture down until thick.

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 + cidertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 the bulk that cooks down into the butter.
Boiled cider
Adds concentrated sweetness and tang while helping the mixture thicken as it reduces.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture down until thick. Long, slow evaporation of water concentrates the sugars and fruit pulp into a spreadable butter. Stopping too early leaves it runny, while overcooking can scorch the sugars on the bottom of the kettle, so stir often.

“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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