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Peaches with Cream

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Why it works: Peach and cream work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 721 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peaches with Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the peaches in half and remove the pits.

  2. Serve the peach halves in a bowl.

  3. Pour cream over the peaches.

  4. Enjoy as a refreshing dessert.

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 + creamtop 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

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