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Peach Pudding

A chilled dessert made with canned peaches, peach syrup, sugar, gelatin, egg whites, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and gelatin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 192 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Peach Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Rub the canned peaches through a colander.

  2. Cook the peaches for 3 minutes in a syrup made by boiling the peach syrup and sugar together.

Make the pudding

  1. Place the pan with peaches and syrup into another pan of boiling water.

  2. Dissolve the gelatin in the cold water and add it to the peach mixture.

  3. Stir for 5 minutes until the gelatin is thoroughly dissolved.

  4. Remove from heat and fold in the whipped egg whites.

Set the pudding

  1. Beat until the mixture begins to harden, then set on ice.

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. Syrup + gelatintop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  5. Peach + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Canned peaches
Provide the main fruit flavour and body of the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the peach syrup and balances the fruit's tartness.
Gelatin
Sets the peach mixture so it holds its shape once chilled.
Egg whites
Whipped into foam, they lighten the pudding and give it a airy texture.

The step that matters

Beat until the mixture begins to harden, then set on ice. Gelatin sets as it cools, so if the mixture firms too far before the chilling step, it can become lumpy or stiff. Stop beating once it begins to thicken and is still spoonable.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (syrup, sugar, gelatin, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, sugar, gelatin, egg. 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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