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Conserve Peaches

A preserve made by boiling peaches with sugar, drying them, and layering in a jar 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 ↓

Conserve Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Pare and cut the peaches.

  2. Boil the peaches with the sugar until clear.

  3. Remove the peaches and drain them slightly.

Dry the peaches

  1. Spread the peaches on dishes to dry.

  2. Sprinkle a little sugar on them every day.

  3. If any syrup forms, transfer them to fresh dishes.

Pack the jar

  1. When completely dry, layer them in a jar with alternate layers of sugar.

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
Provide the fruit itself, which holds its shape and flavor as it is cooked and dried.
Loaf sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and adds sweetness, helping the peaches keep as preserves.

The step that matters

Drying the peaches with daily sugar. Sugar draws moisture out of the fruit, so the peaches must dry fully before packing. Removing any syrup that forms keeps the fruit from becoming soggy or spoiling.

“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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