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Brandy Peaches

Peaches preserved in a sugar syrup and brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Brandy Peaches

Why it works: Peach and apple brandy work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Brandy Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Peel the peaches and weigh them.

  2. For every pound of peaches, use ½ pound of sugar.

Cook the peaches

  1. Combine the sugar and water in a preserving kettle and boil for 15 minutes, removing any scum.

  2. Drop in 12 peaches at a time and cook until a straw can easily pass through them.

  3. Carefully remove the peaches with a skimmer and let them cool on flat dishes.

Pack and finish

  1. Once cold, place the peaches in a jar.

  2. Cook the syrup until thick, then let it cool.

  3. Mix equal parts syrup and brandy, and pour over the peaches, ensuring they are well covered.

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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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.

  1. Peach + apple brandytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + apple brandytop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit, which softens and becomes tender as it cooks in the syrup.
White sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, as a thick syrup, preserves it and adds body.
Brandy
Adds aroma and flavour and helps preserve the peaches in the syrup.

The step that matters

Cook the peaches until a straw passes through. Cooking must be stopped at the right point so the peaches become tender without breaking apart. Lifting them out gently with a skimmer keeps them whole.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, apple brandy):

  1. Applefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Peachthe original
  4. Quincefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, apple brandy. 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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