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Brandy Peaches

A preserved peach dessert made with sugar, water, and brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Brandy Peaches

Why it works: Peach and apple brandy work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Brandy Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Peel the peaches and weigh them.

Make the syrup

  1. In a preserving kettle, combine the sugar and water. Boil for 15 minutes, removing any scum.

  2. Cook the syrup until thick, then let it cool.

Cook and jar the peaches

  1. Drop in 12 peaches at a time until they are tender enough for a straw to pass through.

  2. Carefully remove the peaches with a skimmer and cool them on flat dishes.

  3. Once cold, place the peaches in a jar.

  4. Mix equal parts syrup and brandy, and pour over the peaches, ensuring they are well covered.

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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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. Peach + apple brandytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + apple brandytop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit that softens in syrup and carries the flavour.
Sugar
Makes a thick syrup that sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it.
Brandy
Adds aroma and flavour, and helps preserve the fruit in the jar.

The step that matters

Cooking the peaches until just tender. Peaches cooked too long in hot syrup will break apart and turn mushy. Testing for a straw to pass through helps you stop at the right point.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Applefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Peachthe original
  4. Quincefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, apple brandy. 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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