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Peaches, German

A preserved peach dish made with allspice, cinnamon, cloves, vinegar, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Peaches, German

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare the peaches and weigh them.

  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the peaches and let them stand for 3 to 4 hours to extract juice.

Cook

  1. In a pot, combine the peaches with the extracted juice and sugar, and stew for about 20 minutes.

  2. Add the vinegar and pounded spices, then boil for 5 to 6 minutes.

  3. If the peaches are not fully covered, add more vinegar as needed; they will float initially but will sink after a day or two.

Store

  1. Keep the jar covered tightly.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Peach + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Peach + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Fruit that softens during stewing and becomes tender in the syrup.
Sugar
Draws out juice and sweetens, and its concentration helps preserve the fruit.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavor and helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Keep the peaches fully covered in liquid. Fruit exposed above the liquid can spoil, so adding vinegar as needed keeps every piece submerged while the preserve matures.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (allspice, cinnamon, clove, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Quincefits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against allspice, cinnamon, clove, vinegar, sugar. 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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