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Peach Cream

A chilled gelatin dessert made with peaches, cream, lemon, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the peach base

  1. Poach the peaches, remove the pulp, and rub it through a sieve.

  2. Add sugar to taste, along with the grated rind and lemon juice to the pulp.

Combine and set

  1. Gradually mix in the whipped cream.

  2. Dissolve the gelatine in the milk or water and let it cool, then stir it into the mixture.

  3. Continue stirring until it begins to set, then add the sliced peaches.

  4. Pour the mixture into a wet mold and set it in a cool place to firm.

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.

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

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

  2. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Peach + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  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

Gelatine
Sets the cream mixture into a firm, sliceable structure as it cools.
Cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture when whipped and folded in.
Peaches
Provide the main fruit flavour and body through the pulp.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the peaches and cream.

The step that matters

Adding the gelatine mixture. Gelatine must be fully dissolved and cooled slightly before it is stirred into the cream. If it is too hot it can melt the whipped cream, and if it is added too cold or in lumps it sets unevenly and leaves a rubbery texture.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cream, peach, sugar. 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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