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 ↓
Peach Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Cut the peaches into quarters and crack the stones to break the kernels.
Place the peaches and kernels in a covered jar and set it in boiling water until soft.
Strain the mixture through a jelly bag to extract the juice.
Make the jelly
In a preserving kettle, combine the peach juice and loaf sugar.
Boil the mixture for 20 minutes.
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.
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Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,308 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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What each ingredient does
- Peaches
- Provide the fruit flavour, natural pectin and body that the jelly sets around.
- Loaf sugar
- Sweetens the jelly and helps it set firm as it cooks down.
- Peach juice
- Supplies the liquid base that is boiled down into the jelly.
The step that matters
Boil the mixture for 20 minutes. Boiling concentrates the sugar and fruit solids until the mixture reaches the point where it gels on cooling. Boiling too briefly leaves a runny jelly, while boiling too long can darken the flavour and make it stiff.
“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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