Name: Canned Peaches
Ingredients: Peaches; ½ cup granulated sugar; Water

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 ↓

Canned Peaches

Ingredients

Peaches
½ cup granulated sugar
Water

Directions

Prepare the peaches

Peel the peaches, cut them in half, and remove the pits.
Place the peach halves cut side down in glass fruit jars.

Make the syrup and fill the jars

Dissolve the sugar in just enough water to make a syrup.
Pour the syrup into the jars.
Cover the jars without the rubber.
Cook them in a tightly covered boiler for 20 minutes.
After cooking, fill the jars with hot water.
Seal immediately.

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.

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.

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 that is cooked and preserved in the jars.
Granulated sugar: Sweetens the syrup and adds sweetness to the preserved peaches.

“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.