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Peach Cream Filling

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 130 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Peach Cream Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut or chop the peaches.

  2. Whip the heavy cream until soft peaks form.

  3. Layer the chopped peaches and whipped cream in a dish, repeating until all ingredients are used.

  4. You can also add bananas, strawberries, or other fruits between the layers.

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 + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Cream + bananatop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the banana

The recipe marks banana as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, cream):

  1. Raspberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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