Name: Peach Cream
Ingredients: 1 quart soft peaches; 1 cup sugar (plus more to taste); 1 quart heavy cream

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Cream

Ingredients

1 quart soft peaches
1 cup sugar (plus more to taste)
1 quart heavy cream

Directions

Mash the soft peaches through a colander to extract the juice.
In a bowl, combine the peach juice with 1 cup of sugar.
Stir in 1 quart of heavy cream.
Taste and add more sugar if necessary.

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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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What each ingredient does

Soft peaches: Provide the fruit juice that gives the cream its flavor and aroma.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the peach juice.
Heavy cream: Provides fat that gives the mixture a rich, smooth, creamy texture.