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Frosted Peaches

Peaches coated in egg whites and powdered sugar, dried in the sun.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,308 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Frosted Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the coating

  1. Combine water and beaten egg whites in a bowl.

  2. Rub the fuzz off each peach with a clean cloth.

Coat and dry

  1. Dip each peach into the egg white mixture.

  2. Roll the dipped peaches in powdered sugar.

  3. Place them stem end up on a sheet of white paper in a sunny window.

  4. When half dry, roll them again in powdered sugar.

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

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

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Egg + peachtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 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

Egg whites
Form a thin coating that dries into a crisp, glossy frosted shell.
Powdered sugar
Adheres to the egg white coating to form a sweet, frosted outer layer.
Peaches
Provide the fruit inside the frosted coating and carry its sweetness and aroma.

The step that matters

Rolling the second coat when half dry. Sugar rolled on a coating that is still wet will dissolve and clump, while a coating that is fully dry will not take up a second layer. Timing it at half dry lets the sugar bond to a tacky surface.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar. 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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