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Peach Cobbler

A baked dessert of peaches topped with pastry, served with sweet cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peach Cobbler

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel and halve fresh peaches, then sprinkle with sugar.

  2. Place peaches in a deep pan with a little butter.

  3. If using canned peaches, add the syrup to the pan.

Bake the topping

  1. Cover the peaches with pastry.

  2. Bake until the pastry is golden.

  3. Carefully remove the pastry.

  4. Place the pastry upside down on a dish.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour the peaches over the pastry.

  2. Serve hot or cold with 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.

  1. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Peach + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. 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 filling, supplying the main flavor and juicy texture of the cobbler.
Sugar
Sweetens the peaches and helps draw out juice to form a syrup.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the fruit, carrying flavor in the pan.
Pastry
Forms the golden topping that bakes over the fruit and browns as it cooks.

The step that matters

Baking the pastry until golden. Pastry must be baked fully so it sets and browns; underbaked pastry stays pale and soggy, while the fruit juices can soften it if it is not cooked through.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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