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Peach Pot-pie

A deep-dish peach pot pie with cream crust, peaches, heavy cream, sugar, flour, and top crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Pot-pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Line a deep dish with cream crust.

  2. Peel the peaches, leaving them whole, and place them in the dish.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, stir together the cream and sugar until well combined.

  2. Pour the cream mixture over the peaches.

  3. Dredge a little flour on top.

Assemble and bake

  1. Cover with a top crust and pinch down the edges to seal.

  2. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until the peaches are well cooked.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  4. Peach + flourtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together787 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit filling and its sweet, juicy flavor as they soften in the oven.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and moisture, and thickens into a creamy custard-like filling as it bakes.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps draw out juices from the peaches.
Flour
Dredged on top to help thicken the cream and juices as the pie bakes.

The step that matters

Baking until the peaches are well cooked. Peaches must be fully softened and the cream mixture set for a stable filling. Underbaking leaves the filling runny and the fruit firm, while the crust may brown before the center is done.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, flour):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

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

“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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