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To Preserve Fruit

A method for preserving peaches by boiling and canning them with sugar.

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 ↓

To Preserve Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare the peaches and sprinkle them with white sugar.

  2. Let them stand for two to three hours.

Cook and can

  1. Bring the peaches to a boiling heat (212°F).

  2. Put them in cans and seal them immediately.

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
The main fruit, supplying the flavor and bulk of the preserve.
White sugar
Adds sweetness and draws moisture out of the fruit, helping it keep.

The step that matters

Seal the cans immediately after boiling. Sealing the fruit while it is still hot lets the heat drive air out of the cans as they cool, creating a vacuum seal. Delaying the seal lets air and microbes back in, which can spoil the preserve.

“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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