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Rustic Peach Tart

This Rustic Peach Tart is my kind of dessert – dough with some sweet fruit.  Simple, not too sweet and delicious. I had tons of peaches in my refrigerator and needed to find something to make.  I found this recipe from Melissa Harfield and knew this was my kind of recipe.  It is very easy and…

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Why it works: Peach and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 385 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) with a rack in the lower-middle position. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Lightly dust a clean counter with flour. Roll the thawed puff pastry into a rough 10-inch square, then transfer it to the parchment-lined sheet.

  3. Stir the cream cheese well until smooth. Spread it over the center of the pastry, leaving a 1-inch border all the way around.

  4. In a bowl, toss the sliced peaches with the 1 tbsp all purpose flour and 1 tbsp of the sugar. Arrange the peaches over the cream cheese.

  5. Fold the pastry border up and over the edges of the peaches, pleating as you go to make a rim. Sprinkle the border with the remaining 1 tbsp sugar and the salt.

  6. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the pastry is deep golden and puffed and the peaches are tender. Let cool on the sheet for 5 minutes.

  7. Warm the orange marmalade in the microwave for 15 to 20 seconds, stirring until liquid. Brush it over the peaches and the pastry rim while the tart is still warm.

  8. Slice and serve warm or at room temperature.

By delishhh. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Peach + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together385 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + spreadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together102 recipes
  3. Sugar + spreadtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Cream cheese + peachtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Sugar + peachtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned 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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, cream cheese, spread, peach):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, cream cheese, spread, peach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).