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Peach Pie

A fruit pie with sliced peaches and sugar, baked in a pastry crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and butter work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 860 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Peach Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the crust

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Make a rich pie crust.

  3. Roll the crust out to fit a pie tin.

  4. Bake the crust until golden brown.

  5. Grease the bottom layer of the crust slightly with butter.

Fill and bake

  1. Layer half of the sliced peaches in the pie tin.

  2. Sprinkle half of the sugar over the peaches.

  3. Add the remaining peaches.

  4. Top with the rest of the sugar.

  5. Cover with the top layer of crust.

  6. Seal the edges.

  7. Bake until the top is nicely browned.

  8. Serve warm with whipped cream.

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 + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe peaches
Provide the main fruit filling, adding juicy flavor and soft texture when baked.
White sugar
Adds sweetness and helps draw out juices from the peaches to form the filling.
Pie crust
Forms the structure that holds the filling, and browns to a golden, crisp finish.

The step that matters

Baking the crust before filling. Partly or fully baking the bottom crust before adding the juicy peach filling helps it set and stay crisp instead of turning soggy.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Peachthe original
  4. Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter. 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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