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Peaches, German

A preserved peach dish flavored 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. Weigh the peeled peaches.

  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the peaches and let them sit 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 tightly covered.

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
Provide the fruit that softens during stewing and forms the body of the preserve.
Sugar
Draws juice out of the fruit and sweetens it while helping preserve the mixture.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavour and helps preserve the fruit.
Allspice
Contributes warm, aromatic spice flavour to the fruit.
Cinnamon
Adds sweet, woody aroma that complements the peaches.
Cloves
Adds strong, pungent aroma to the spiced syrup.

The step that matters

Keep the peaches fully covered. Fruit exposed above the liquid can spoil or darken. Vinegar and sugar help preserve the fruit, but only when it stays submerged, so add more vinegar whenever the peaches are not covered.

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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