Name: Dried Peaches
Ingredients: Peaches; Sugar to taste; Water

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 ↓

Dried Peaches

Ingredients

Peaches
Sugar to taste
Water

Directions

Prepare

Wash the peaches in cold water and drain.
Cover the peaches with fresh water and soak overnight.

Cook and serve

Boil the soaked peaches slowly in the same water for 10 minutes.
Add sugar to taste and place in a cooker for 4 hours.
Serve cold.

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.

Explore the science

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.

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: Form the main body of the dish, becoming soft and tender as they cook.
Sugar: Adds sweetness to taste, balancing the natural tartness of the fruit.

“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.