Name: Steamed Peach Roll
Ingredients: Peaches; Cream sauce

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Steamed Peach Roll

Ingredients

Peaches
Cream sauce

Directions

Peel and stone the peaches.
Slice the peaches very thin.
Prepare the peaches as you would for a steamed apple roll.
Serve with cream sauce.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Peach + saucetop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together109 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).