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Peach Cobbler

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and brandy work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 339 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Peach Cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Line the bottom and sides of a pudding dish with short pie paste.

  2. Brush the bottom with the egg white.

  3. Layer ripe peaches in the dish, leaving the pits in.

  4. Sprinkle bits of butter, granulated sugar, and a little flour over each layer.

  5. Use a total of 2 tablespoons of butter and ⅔ cup of sugar, and add ½ cup of water.

  6. Cover with crust.

  7. Five minutes before serving, pour in a splash of brandy if 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 + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Peach + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Butter + brandytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, sugar, brandy):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, sugar, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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