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Fried Peaches

Fried peaches are sliced peaches fried until browned and served hot with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Fried Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the peaches in half and remove the pits.

Fry

  1. Heat a dripping pan with ½ inch of hot fat over the fire.

  2. Place the peaches cut side down in the pan and fry until light brown.

  3. Carefully turn the peaches over and heat the other side until warmed through.

Serve

  1. Arrange the peaches on a hot platter cut side up, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and serve hot.

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 + sugartop 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

Peaches
Provide the fruit that softens and caramelizes lightly in the hot fat.
Fat
Conducts heat quickly and browns the cut surfaces of the peaches.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and a delicate finish on the warm fruit.

The step that matters

Frying the peaches cut side down. The fat must be smoking hot so the cut surface browns quickly through caramelization and Maillard reactions. If the fat is cool, the peaches absorb grease and turn soggy rather than golden.

“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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