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Peaches

Preserved peaches boiled with molasses and cold water, then bottled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and molasses work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 62 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and wipe the peaches.

  2. Pare the skin off, leaving the stones in if desired.

Cook and seal

  1. In a pot, combine the peaches, molasses, and cold water.

  2. Boil until the peaches are soft but not broken, covering the pot to retain steam.

  3. Once done, bottle and seal.

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 + molassestop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit body and flavour, softening as they cook into the preserve.
Molasses
Adds sweetness, deep colour and a thick, rich syrup that coats the fruit.

The step that matters

Boil until the peaches are soft but not broken. Boiling too hard or too long breaks the fruit down into mush. Keeping the pot covered traps steam, so the peaches cook evenly and hold their shape in the syrup.

“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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