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Apricots Candis Ou Autres Fruits

Candied apricots are apricots peeled, scalded, arranged, and coated with a sugar syrup, served cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,630 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Apricots Candis Ou Autres Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel the apricots.

  2. Scald the apricots in boiling water.

  3. Arrange the apricots in a serving dish.

Make the syrup and serve

  1. Make a strong syrup by dissolving sugar in water.

  2. Pour the syrup over the fruit.

  3. Serve cold.

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. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apricots
The fruit itself, which absorbs the syrup and supplies the main flavour.
Sugar
Sweetens the dish and, dissolved in water, forms the syrup that coats the fruit.

The step that matters

Make a strong syrup by dissolving sugar in water. Sugar must fully dissolve to form a concentrated syrup. A high sugar concentration lowers the water available to spoil or dilute the fruit, and it sweetens the apricots evenly.

“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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