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Canning Fruit

A method for canning peaches using a sugar syrup and boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and peach 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 ↓

Canning Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the syrup

  1. Prepare the syrup by mixing 1 quart of sugar with 2 quarts of water.

  2. Use a porcelain kettle dedicated to canning.

Prepare the peaches

  1. Boil about 3 quarts of water in a second porcelain kettle.

  2. Place peaches in a clean wire basket.

  3. Dip the peaches into boiling water for a moment.

  4. Transfer the peaches immediately into cold water to peel easily.

  5. Halve the peeled peaches.

  6. Drop the peach halves into boiling water to simmer until tender.

Can the peaches

  1. Lift each peach half out with a wire spoon and fill a prepared can.

  2. Pour in boiling syrup until the jar is full.

  3. Cover the jar and screw down tightly.

  4. Continue this process until all peaches are canned.

  5. If syrup remains, add the simmering water and more sugar.

  6. Boil until it thickens for jelly or marmalade.

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. Sugar + peachtop 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

Granulated sugar
Sweetens the syrup and gives the canned peaches their flavor.
Peaches
Provide the fruit that softens in the hot syrup during canning.

“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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