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Peach Pie

A pie made with peaches, sugar, flour, and optional water, baked in a soda‑biscuit crust and served with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 889 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Peach Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Line a deep dish with soda-biscuit dough or pie crust.

Fill and assemble

  1. Fill with pared peaches, sprinkled with sugar and a little flour.

  2. If the peaches are not too juicy, add about 2 tablespoons of water.

  3. Place the upper crust on top and secure the edges.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden.

  2. Serve with cream.

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. Biscuit + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together889 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Biscuit + peachtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Biscuit + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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 and its juice, which softens as the pie bakes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps draw out juice from the peaches as they cook.
Flour
Thickens the peach juices so the filling sets rather than running out.
Soda-biscuit dough or pie crust
Forms the structure that holds the filling and browns to a golden finish.

The step that matters

Add water only if the peaches are not too juicy. Peaches release liquid as they bake, and flour can only thicken so much. Adding water to already juicy fruit can make the filling thin and soggy, so judge the juiciness first.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, sugar, flour, cream. 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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