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Peach Water Ice

A chilled dessert made by stewing peaches, pureeing them, mixing with syrup, and freezing the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Peach Water Ice

Why it works: Peach and syrup work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 210 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Peach Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Stew the peaches until soft, then divide them in half.

  2. Beat the peaches through a fine sieve or use a fruit presser.

Freeze

  1. Mix the peach puree with 1 pint of syrup.

  2. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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 + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 of the puree's body.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer and easier to eat.

The step that matters

Beat the peaches through a fine sieve or use a fruit presser. Skins, seeds and fibers left in the puree form gritty ice crystals as it freezes. Pressing the fruit smooth gives a fine, even texture.

“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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