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Suedoise of Peaches

A dessert of peaches simmered in syrup, layered with peach marmalade, and garnished with macaroons or candied citron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and lemon work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 947 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Suedoise of Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Poach the peaches

  1. Pare and halve the peaches.

  2. Simmer the peaches in a syrup made of water and sugar for 5 to 8 minutes.

  3. Carefully lift the peaches into a deep dish.

  4. Pour half of the syrup over the peaches.

Make the marmalade

  1. Boil the additional peaches with enough sugar until they form a smooth pulp.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread a layer of marmalade in the dish.

  2. Arrange the peaches around the marmalade.

  3. Fill the spaces between the peaches with more marmalade.

  4. Place half a blanched peach kernel in each peach.

  5. Pour the reduced syrup over the dish.

  6. Garnish with macaroons or candied citron.

  7. Add lemon juice to enhance the 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 + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the main fruit flavor and soft texture of the dessert.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and marmalade and helps thicken the fruit pulp.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the peaches.

The step that matters

Boil the additional peaches into a smooth pulp. Cooking the fruit with sugar long enough lets it break down and thicken into a spreadable marmalade. Undercooked pulp stays watery and will not hold its layer in the dish.

Swap the peach

The recipe marks peach as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, lemon):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lemon. 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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