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Peach Sauce

A sweet peach sauce made with peach juice, water, sugar, raisins, and almond extract.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Peach Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the sauce

  1. In a small saucepan, combine peach juice and water.

  2. Add sugar and raisins.

  3. Boil for 10 minutes.

  4. Strain the mixture.

Finish and serve

  1. Just before serving, stir in almond extract.

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. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Peach + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  4. Peach + raisintop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41 recipes

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

  5. 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

Peach juice
Provides most of the liquid and the main peach flavour of the sauce.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the fruit juice.
Raisins
Add concentrated sweetness and soften as they cook, adding body to the sauce.
Almond extract
Adds a strong aroma that gives the sauce its characteristic almond note.

The step that matters

Stir in the almond extract just before serving. Almond aroma compounds are volatile and fade with prolonged heat, so adding the extract off the heat keeps its flavour noticeable.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, raisin, almond. 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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