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To Preserve Peaches

Peaches preserved in a sugar syrup after boiling.

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 ↓

To Preserve Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Select ripe but firm peaches, cut them in halves, and remove the stones.

  2. Peel the peaches neatly.

  3. For each pound of peaches, use an equal amount of white sugar and a teacup of water.

Make the syrup and cook the peaches

  1. Dissolve the sugar in water over moderate heat.

  2. Once boiling, add the peaches and boil gently until they turn clear.

  3. Carefully turn the peaches with a skimmer several times during cooking.

  4. Once clear, remove the peaches with a spoon and spread them on flat dishes to cool.

  5. Boil the syrup until thick, then pour it into a pitcher to cool and settle.

Jar and finish

  1. Once the peaches are cold, place them in jars and pour the syrup over them, leaving any sediment behind.

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

Peaches
Provide the fruit that is cooked until clear and preserved in syrup.
White sugar
Forms a thick syrup that sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it.

The step that matters

Boil the peaches gently until they turn clear. Boiling vigorously can break up the fruit and cloud the syrup. Gentle heat lets the peaches soften evenly and keeps them whole, and turning them carefully helps them cook through without tearing.

“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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