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Peach Butter

Peach butter is a sweet preserve made from ripe peaches and sugar.

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 ↓

Peach Butter

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel the ripe peaches and cook them until soft.

  2. Pass the cooked peaches through a colander.

Cook with sugar

  1. For each quart of fruit, add 1 ½ pints of sugar.

  2. Cook the mixture until it becomes clear and rich.

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

Ripe peaches
Supply the main fruit flavour and the pulp that cooks down into a thick spread.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, as water cooks off, thickens the spread and helps it keep.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture until it becomes clear and rich. Thickening depends on water evaporating while the sugar and fruit concentrate. Stopping too early leaves a thin, runny butter, while cooking too long can scorch the sugars and darken the flavour.

“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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