Name: Peach Pies
Ingredients: 4 fresh peaches; 2 tablespoons sugar; 1 tablespoon cream; 1 pie crust

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Pies

Ingredients

4 fresh peaches
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon cream
1 pie crust

Directions

If using dried peaches, stew them in a little water until soft.
If using fresh peaches, peel and slice them in halves.
Break the stones and add the kernels to the pie.
Add sugar and cream according to the size of the pie.
Place the peach mixture into the pie crust and cover with another crust if desired.

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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

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