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Peach Dumplings

Steamed dumplings filled with peach compote served with peach sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Peach Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, combine flour, milk (or water), shortening, salt, egg, sugar, and dissolved yeast.

  2. Let the dough rise for 3 hours.

Make the compote

  1. Meanwhile, stew peaches with sugar, cinnamon, and cloves to make a compote.

Shape and steam

  1. Flour a surface and roll out the dough to ½ inch thick.

  2. Cut out circles using a tumbler.

  3. Brush edges with egg white, place 1 teaspoon of peach compote in the center, and cover with another dough circle.

  4. Press edges firmly together.

  5. For a fluffier dessert, let the dough rise for an additional 30 minutes after rolling out.

  6. Steam over boiling water and serve with peach sauce.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Peach + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Peach + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the dough structure that holds the filling and sets when cooked.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and become light.
Egg
Adds richness and helps bind the dough.
Shortening
Adds fat that tenderizes the dough texture.
Peaches
Provide the sweet, fruity filling that is cooked into a compote.

The step that matters

Press edges firmly together. If the edges are not sealed well, the compote can leak out during steaming and the dumplings can open or lose their filling.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, milk, egg, sugar, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk, egg, sugar, cinnamon, clove. 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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