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Apricots, Preserved

Preserved apricots are apricots cooked in a sugar and water syrup and stored in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,630 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Apricots, Preserved

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and halve the apricots, removing the pits.

Make the syrup

  1. In a pot, combine equal parts sugar and water to create a syrup.

Cook and seal

  1. Add the apricots to the syrup and simmer gently until they are tender.

  2. Pour the mixture into sterilized jars and seal while hot.

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. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apricots
Provide the fruit that softens during simmering and becomes the preserved food.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, with water, forms the syrup that helps preserve it.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until the apricots are tender. Boiling hard can break the fruit apart and make the texture mushy. A gentle simmer lets the syrup penetrate the apricots evenly while they keep their shape.

“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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