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To Preserve Peaches

This preserves peaches by layering with sugar, boiling, and sealing in jars with syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

To Preserve Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and weigh the peaches.

  2. Layer sugar and peaches in a preserving kettle, starting with sugar.

Cook the preserves

  1. Heat until the sugar dissolves completely.

  2. Boil until the peaches are clear.

  3. Remove peaches and place them on a dish to cool.

  4. Boil the remaining syrup until it jellies.

Jar and seal

  1. Once peaches are cold, fill jars half full with peaches and top with boiling syrup.

  2. Cover jars with a thin cloth, then seal with brandy paper and corks.

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

Yellow peaches
Supply the fruit, which softens and turns clear as it cooks in the syrup.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, dissolved into syrup, helps it thicken and preserve the peaches.

The step that matters

Boil the remaining syrup until it jellies. Sugar concentrates as water evaporates, and the syrup sets only at a high enough sugar concentration. Too little boiling leaves it runny, while too much makes it stiff and sugary as it cools.

“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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