Name: Peach Cobbler
Ingredients: Fresh or canned peaches; Sugar; Water; Pastry for topping; Rich sweet cream for serving

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

If using fresh peaches, peel and halve them, then sprinkle with sugar.
Place peaches in a deep pan with a little water. If using canned peaches, add the syrup to the pan.
Prepare a pastry and place it on top of the peaches in the pan.
Once baked, carefully remove the pastry and place it top side down on a dish.
Pour the peaches over the pastry and serve hot or cold with rich sweet cream.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).