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To Preserve Nectarines

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Preserve Nectarines

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Split the nectarines and remove the stones.

  2. Place the nectarines in clarified sugar until well coated.

  3. Skim the liquid, cover the nectarines with paper, and let sit overnight.

  4. Add more sugar to the syrup and boil until it flows.

  5. Add the nectarines to the syrup, boil well, skim, and cover.

  6. Let the nectarines sit on a stove overnight.

  7. The next day, remove the nectarines from the sugar and drain them.

  8. Place the nectarines separately and dust with sugar.

  9. The following day, dry them on the stove or in a cool oven.

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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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