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Dried Peach Sauce

A sauce made by soaking dried peaches, stewing until soft, then sweetening and boiling.

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 ↓

Dried Peach Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick over and wash the dried peaches thoroughly.

  2. Cover the peaches with hot water and let them soak overnight.

Cook and finish

  1. Stew the peaches until very soft.

  2. Pass the cooked peaches through a colander.

  3. Sweeten the sauce to taste and boil it once.

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

Dried peaches
Provide the main fruit flavour and, once softened and puréed, the body of the sauce.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the natural tartness of the dried fruit.

The step that matters

Stew the peaches until very soft. Dried fruit stays firm until it is fully cooked and softened by heat, and only soft fruit passes through a colander to form a smooth sauce. Stopping early leaves lumps and a grainy texture.

“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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