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Peach Marhalade

A peach preserve made by boiling peach pulp and peelings with water and sugar until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,308 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Peach Marhalade

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the fruit

  1. Combine peach peelings and pulp with enough water to cover in a pot.

  2. Boil slowly until the fruit is soft enough to pass through a sieve.

Make the jam

  1. Add half the amount of sugar compared to the fruit and boil slowly for about 45 minutes until it thickens.

  2. Stir frequently during cooking.

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 + 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

Peach parings and pulp
Provide the fruit body, pectin and natural flavour that set the jam.
Sugar
Sweetens the jam and helps it thicken as the mixture reduces.

The step that matters

Stirring during the long boil. Sugar and fruit sitting on the base of the pot can scorch as the mixture thickens and reduces. Frequent stirring keeps the heat even and prevents burnt flavour.

“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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