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Peach Jelly

A preserved peach confection made by boiling peaches, sugar, peach juice, and kernels.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Peach Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Strain the very ripe peaches through a jelly bag.

  2. Combine 1 pound of sugar with 1 pint of the peach juice and a few peach kernels.

  3. Boil the mixture for twenty minutes.

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

Very ripe peaches
Provide the juice and natural pectin-rich flavor that form the jelly.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the mixture thicken and set as it cooks.
Peach juice
Supplies the liquid base and the fruit flavor for the jelly.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture for twenty minutes. Boiling concentrates the sugar and juice so the mixture reaches the point where it can set into a jelly. Boiling too briefly can leave it runny, while boiling too long can make it stiff or sticky.

“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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