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Preserved Peaches

Peaches preserved in a sugar syrup by steaming and canning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,308 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Preserved Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Steam the peaches

  1. Pare the peaches and place them in a steamer over boiling water. Cover tightly.

  2. Place an earthen plate in the steamer to preserve the juices.

  3. Steam the peaches until they can be pierced with a fork.

Make the syrup and pack

  1. Make a syrup by combining ½ pound of sugar with 1 pint of water.

  2. Pack the fruit into cans and pour the hot syrup over the fruit until the cans are full.

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 + 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

Peaches
The fruit itself, softened by steaming while keeping its shape and juices.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, dissolved in the syrup, helps preserve the fruit's flavor.

The step that matters

Steam only until a fork pierces the peaches. Peaches that are pierced but not yet soft hold their shape in the cans. Steaming past that point makes the fruit mushy and fragile.

“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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