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Branded Peach Sauce

A sauce made from brandied peaches, butter, powdered sugar, arrowroot, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and arrowroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Branded Peach Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cream the butter and powdered sugar together.

  2. Pour in the liquor from the brandied peaches, heated in a covered saucepan.

  3. Stir well and add the arrowroot mixed with a little cold water.

  4. Place the mixture in boiling water and cover until scalding hot.

  5. Stir for three minutes and serve.

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 + arrowroottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + peachtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

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

  3. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + arrowroottop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy body to the sauce.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the butter for a smooth texture.
Liquor from brandied peaches
Supplies the main liquid, sweetness and the fruity, boozy flavour of the sauce.
Arrowroot
Thickens the sauce as it heats, giving it a glossy, smooth consistency.

The step that matters

Adding the arrowroot mixture. Arrowroot must be mixed with cold water before it goes into the warm liquid, or it will form lumps. It thickens as the sauce heats, so stirring well while it comes to scalding hot gives an even, smooth result.

Swap the arrowroot

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

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Arrowrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, peach. 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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