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Dried Peach Pie

A pie made with soaked dried peaches, sugar, salt, water, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and butter work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 860 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Dried Peach Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Soak the dried peaches overnight.

  2. Cook the peaches until soft with very little water and no sugar.

Assemble and finish

  1. Fill the pie with the cut peaches.

  2. Pour over the sugar, salt, and water.

  3. Dot with bits of butter and cover with a top crust or pastry bars.

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.

Explore the science

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 + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. 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 filling, softening into a tender, flavorful body when cooked.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the filling its body as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that enhances flavor and mouthfeel in the pie.

The step that matters

Cook the peaches until soft with very little water. Dried peaches must be fully softened before baking, since the oven will not fully rehydrate them. Using very little water keeps the filling thick rather than runny.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Peachthe original
  4. Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter. 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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