Name: Frozen Peaches
Ingredients: 1 quart canned peaches; ½ cup sugar; 4 cups peach syrup and water

Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Frozen Peaches

Ingredients

1 quart canned peaches
½ cup sugar
4 cups peach syrup and water

Directions

Prepare

Drain the peaches and press them through a strainer.
Combine the peach syrup with enough water to make 4 cups.

Make the mixture

Add the sugar and boil for 5 minutes.
Stir in the peaches.
Cool the mixture.

Freeze

Freeze.

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 + syruptop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,842 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + syruptop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together210 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

Canned peaches: Provide the fruit flavor and the body of the frozen dessert.
Sugar: Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point, keeping it softer when frozen.
Peach syrup and water: Supplies liquid that carries the peach flavor and forms the base of the frozen mixture.