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Peaches in Jelly

A dessert of sliced peaches set in a gelatin mixture flavored with almond extract.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 466 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Peaches in Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gelatin

  1. Soak the gelatin in cold water until soft.

  2. Cook the sugar with boiling water to make a syrup.

  3. Pour the hot syrup over the softened gelatin and strain.

  4. Add the peach liquid and water, then the almond extract.

  5. Let the mixture stand until it begins to thicken.

Set in the mold

  1. Peel and slice the peaches and place them in a mold.

  2. Pour the slightly thickened gelatin over the peaches.

  3. Set the mold on ice until the gelatin fully thickens.

Serve

  1. Serve with whipped 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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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 + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Gelatin + creamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Gelatin + sugartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatin
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable gel as it chills.
Sugar
Sweetens the liquid and dissolves into the syrup that flavors the gel.
Peaches
Add fruit flavor and soft texture, held in place by the set gel.
Almond extract
Adds a fragrant aroma that lifts the peach flavor.

The step that matters

Pour the gelatin while it is only slightly thickened. Pouring the gelatin over the peaches after it has begun to thicken, not while it is fully liquid, keeps the fruit suspended instead of floating. Chilling then sets the gel evenly around the fruit.

Swap the peach

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against gelatin, sugar, almond, cream. 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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