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Canned Peach Pudding

A chilled dessert made from canned peaches, sugar, gelatin, peach flavoring, heavy cream, and cola water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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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 ↓

Canned Peach Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Cook the canned peaches until soft.

  2. Strain the cooked peaches through a colander.

  3. Soften the gelatin in cold water.

Make the pudding

  1. Add the softened gelatin to the hot peach mixture.

  2. Stir in the sugar when the mixture is somewhat cool.

  3. Add the peach flavoring to the mixture.

  4. Set the mixture in a pan of ice water.

  5. Stir the mixture until it begins to thicken.

Fold, mold and set

  1. Fold in the heavy cream that has been beaten until stiff.

  2. Turn the mixture into a wet mold.

  3. Let the mixture firm up.

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.

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

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

  3. 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

What each ingredient does

Canned peaches
Provide the main fruit flavor and most of the pudding's liquid.
Gelatine
Sets the mixture into a firm, sliceable gel as it cools.
Heavy cream
Whipped air and fat give the pudding a light, creamy texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the peaches.

The step that matters

Stop chilling when the mixture just begins to thicken. Gelatin sets as it cools, so if the mixture firms too far before the cream is folded in, the cream will not blend evenly and the pudding can turn lumpy and dense.

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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