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Preserved Peaches

Preserved peaches are peaches steamed, cooled in a sugar syrup, and canned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Preserved Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Steam the peaches

  1. Select and pare the peaches.

  2. Place them in a steamer over boiling water, covering tightly.

  3. Steam for 15 minutes or until easily pierced with a fork.

Make the syrup

  1. Prepare a syrup using 1 pound of sugar and water.

  2. Drop each steamed peach into the syrup for a few seconds.

Jar and seal

  1. Transfer the peaches to canning jars.

  2. Pour the hot syrup over the peaches and seal immediately.

  3. Skim the syrup well before pouring over the fruit.

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 + 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

Peaches
Provide the fruit itself, which softens with steaming and carries the flavor.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps preserve the fruit by drawing out moisture in the syrup.

The step that matters

Pouring the hot syrup and sealing immediately. Hot syrup and hot fruit help drive air out of the jar. As the contents cool, the lower pressure inside helps the lid seal. Delaying the seal lets air and contamination in and weakens the preserve.

“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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