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Bottled Peaches

A preserved peach recipe that involves macerating peaches with sugar, boiling, and bottling in syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Bottled Peaches

Oven, in the book's wordsA medium oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Peel and halve the peaches, then weigh them.

  2. For each pound of peaches, use one pound of sugar.

  3. In a stone crock, layer the peaches and sugar alternately.

  4. Let the mixture macerate for 24 hours.

Cook and jar

  1. Transfer everything to a preserving kettle, including some blanched and skinned kernels.

  2. Bring to a rapid boil, then simmer until the fruit is tender and the syrup is clear.

  3. Gently fill fruit jars with the peaches, ensuring the halves remain intact.

  4. Allow the syrup to cool, then pour it over the peaches.

  5. Screw on the covers and use as desired.

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 during simmering and gives the preserve its flavor.
Sugar
Draws moisture out of the fruit and forms the syrup that preserves it and sweetens it.

The step that matters

Simmer until tender and clear. Simmering dissolves sugar into the fruit juices and softens the peaches gradually. Boiling too hard can break the halves apart, so keeping the simmer gentle helps the fruit stay intact and the syrup clear.

“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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