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Dried Peach Pie

A pie made with dried peaches, sweet cream or boiling water, sugar, butter, and pie crusts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Dried Peach Pie

two pies

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Stew the dried peaches until tender, then mash them until fine.

  2. For two pies, mix in the sweet cream and sugar.

  3. Alternatively, omit the cream and add boiling water and butter.

Bake

  1. Bake with two pie crusts.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Peach + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. 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

Dried peaches
Provide the main fruit flavour and body of the filling once stewed and mashed.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the tartness of the dried fruit.
Sweet cream
Adds richness and a softer, creamier texture to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, rounded mouthfeel in the filling.

The step that matters

Stew the peaches until fully tender. Dried fruit that is not fully softened stays tough and mashes unevenly, so the filling will have a gritty texture.

Swap the peach

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, butter. 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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