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To Can Peaches and Pears

A method for preserving peaches or pears by canning them with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

To Can Peaches and Pears

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Select ripe fruit, peel, and stone it.

  2. Drop the fruit into cold water.

  3. For every pound of fruit, use ¼ pound of sugar.

Cook

  1. Put the fruit in a kettle with a little water to prevent burning.

  2. Boil until tender; perfectly ripe fruit requires little boiling.

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.

  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

Ripe peaches or pears
Supply the fruit flavor and the soft, tender texture of the finished dish.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the fruit keep its flavor once canned.

The step that matters

Boiling until tender. Prolonged heat breaks down the fruit's cell walls, so it turns soft and mushy. Ripe fruit softens quickly, so it needs only brief boiling and should be checked early.

“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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