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Peach Wine

A fermented beverage made from peaches, water, sugar, and yeast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peach Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Combine sliced peaches and cold water in a large container.

  2. Let it stand for 4 days, stirring three times a day.

  3. Strain the mixture.

Add sugar and yeast

  1. For each quart of liquid, add 1 lb of sugar and let it dissolve overnight.

  2. Toast a piece of bread.

  3. Pour 1 cup of yeast over it.

  4. Add this to the wine mixture and let it stand overnight.

  5. Remove the bread and skim off the yeast.

Ferment and age

  1. Transfer the wine into stone bottles, filling them up each day for 2-3 days.

  2. Place the bottles in a warm area for 3 weeks.

  3. Lightly cork them until fermentation is complete.

  4. Secure the corks tightly, ensuring they do not pop off.

  5. Bottle the wine after 6 months for best flavor.

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. Peach + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together55 recipes

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

  2. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + breadtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,638 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit flavor and the sugars that the wine is made from.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation and adds sweetness to the finished wine.
Yeast
Converts the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation.

The step that matters

Lightly cork the bottles until fermentation is complete. Fermentation releases carbon dioxide, so corks must be loose enough to let gas escape. Sealing too tightly too early can cause bottles to burst or corks to pop off.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, bread. 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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