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Of Peaches

A sweet preserve made by boiling peaches with sugar and optional kernels, then jarred.

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 ↓

Of Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Blanch peaches in boiling water, then transfer them to cold water.

  2. Drain the peaches.

  3. Slice the peaches in half to remove the stones.

  4. Crack two-thirds of the stones.

  5. Boil the kernels until the skins come off easily, then skin the kernels.

  6. Cut the kernels into small pieces.

Cook the preserves

  1. Combine the peaches and sugar in a pan.

  2. Boil for about 20 minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon.

  3. Add the kernel pieces a few minutes before removing from heat.

Jar and store

  1. Transfer to jars immediately after cooking.

  2. Cover jars once cooled.

  3. Store in a dry, cool place.

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
Provide the fruit, flavour and bulk that the preserves are made from.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps thicken and preserve the mixture by binding water.

The step that matters

Boiling with the sugar. Boiling the peaches and sugar for about 20 minutes stirring constantly concentrates the mixture and lets it set; stirring prevents the sugar and fruit from scorching on the base of the pan.

“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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