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Canned Peaches

A preserved peach recipe using water, sugar, kernels, and peaches boiled in syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Canned Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine 2 cups of water and 1½ cups of sugar in a pot. Bring to a boil.

  2. Crack the peach stones and add 4-5 kernels to the syrup.

  3. Cook the syrup for 5 minutes.

Cook the peaches

  1. Add the peaches to the syrup and boil gently until a fork can easily pierce them.

  2. Do not cook too many peaches at once.

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

Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the peaches' shape and texture.
Peaches
Provide the fruit that softens in the syrup and becomes tender when gently boiled.
Peach kernels
Add a subtle almond-like aroma to the syrup.

The step that matters

Do not cook too many peaches at once. Crowding the pot lowers the syrup's effective heat and slows boiling, so the peaches cook unevenly and may turn mushy before they are tender throughout. Cooking in smaller batches keeps the boil gentle and the fruit intact.

“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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