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Stewed Peaches

Peaches stewed with sugar, served as dessert.

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 ↓

Stewed Peaches

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the peaches, but do not cut them.

Cook and serve

  1. In a preserving kettle, combine the peaches and sugar without adding water.

  2. Boil until the peaches are tender.

  3. Serve immediately for dessert with bread and butter or 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. 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
Provide the main fruit flavor and, once cooked, the soft tender texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and draws juice out of the fruit, forming a syrup as it cooks.

The step that matters

Combining the peaches and sugar without water. Without added water, the sugar must draw enough juice out of the peaches before the boil. Heat applied too early or too hard can scorch the fruit on the bottom of the kettle, so the mixture should be kept moving and watched as it heats.

“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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