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Jellied Peaches

A chilled dessert of peaches set in gelatin with peach syrup and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and lemon work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 947 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Jellied Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Drain the syrup from the jar of peaches.

  2. Cut the peaches into small pieces.

  3. Measure the syrup; if less than 1 pint, add water to reach 1 pint.

Make the jelly

  1. Heat the syrup to boiling.

  2. Stir in the gelatin softened in ½ cup water until dissolved.

  3. Add lemon juice.

  4. Let the mixture stand in a cool place until it begins to thicken.

Set and serve

  1. Add the peaches.

  2. Turn the mixture into a mold.

  3. Let it harden.

  4. Serve 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.

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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 + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Peach + gelatintop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  3. Gelatin + lemontop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,215 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatin
Sets the syrup into a firm, sliceable jelly as it cools.
Peaches
Supply fruit flesh and flavor suspended throughout the set jelly.
Peach syrup
Provides the liquid base and sweetness for the jelly.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet peach flavor.

The step that matters

Let the mixture stand until it begins to thicken. Adding peaches too early, or setting before the mixture thickens, can let fruit sink or cause uneven setting. Gelatin needs to be partly set so the peach pieces stay evenly distributed.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, gelatin):

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, gelatin. 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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