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Frozen Peaches

A simple dessert made by freezing sliced peaches with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Frozen Peaches

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 ↓

Frozen Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Sprinkle the sliced peaches with sugar.

  2. Let them stand for 2 hours.

Make and freeze

  1. Mash the peaches finely.

  2. Add cold water to the mashed peaches and mix well.

  3. Freeze the mixture like you would ice 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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Explore the science

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 fruit flavor and most of the body of the frozen dessert.
Sugar
Draws juice out of the peaches and adds sweetness that softens the frozen texture.

The step that matters

Letting the peaches stand with sugar. Sugar draws juice out of the fruit and dissolves into it, so the peaches become syrupy. Skipping the rest leaves the fruit drier and less sweet in the finished frozen mixture.

“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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