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Peach Sauce

A sauce made by soaking dried peaches, simmering with water, mashing with brown sugar, served cold with roast meat, poultry, or game.

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 ↓

Peach Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the dried peaches in cold water until tender.

  2. Drain the peaches and place them in a covered pan with a little water.

Cook and serve

  1. Simmer on low heat until completely dissolved.

  2. Mash the peaches with brown sugar.

  3. Serve cold with roast meat, poultry, or game.

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

Dried peaches
Break down during simmering to form the body of the sauce.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and a caramel-like depth that balances the fruit's tartness.

The step that matters

Simmer on low heat until completely dissolved. Low heat softens the dried fruit gradually, so it breaks down into a smooth purée without scorching. Too much heat can stick and burn on the bottom of the pan before the peaches fully soften.

“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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