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Dried Peach Pie

A pie made with peaches simmered in water, sweetened with lemon juice and sugar, baked in a crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and lemon work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 947 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Dried Peach Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Place the peaches in a saucepan and cover with cold water.

  2. Simmer slowly until the peaches are tender, being careful not to burn them.

  3. Five minutes before removing from heat, add the lemon juice and sugar.

  4. If the mixture is not sweet enough, add a little more sugar.

Assemble and bake

  1. Line a pie pan with the pie crust, fill it with the peach mixture, and cover with an upper crust.

  2. Bake until the crust is golden brown.

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 + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit filling that softens and becomes the main body of the pie.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the fruit and the lemon juice.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the peach flavour and balances the sugar.
Pie crust
Forms the structure that holds the filling and browns in the oven.

The step that matters

Simmer the peaches gently. High heat or long cooking can burn the fruit at the bottom of the pan and turn the filling bitter. Gentle simmering softens the peaches evenly while keeping their flavour intact.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, sugar. 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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