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Peach or Apricot Marmalades

A preserve made from peaches or apricots and sugar, cooked until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 or Apricot Marmalades

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and macerate

  1. Pare and cut the fruit into small pieces.

  2. In a preserving kettle, layer the fruit and sugar alternately until all is used.

  3. Use ¾ pound of sugar for each pound of fruit.

Cook

  1. Cook over medium heat, watching carefully to prevent burning.

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

Ripe peaches or apricots
Provide the fruit body, pectin and natural flavour that form the marmalade.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps draw out juice and set the marmalade texture.

The step that matters

Cook over medium heat, watching carefully to prevent burning.. Sugar-rich fruit scorches easily on the bottom of the kettle, and burnt sugar gives a bitter taste. Gentle, attentive heat lets the mixture thicken evenly without darkening.

“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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