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Peach Cake

A cake made with a jelly cake batter, filled with beaten egg whites, sugar, and mashed peaches.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and peach 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 Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cake

  1. Prepare the batter as for a jelly cake and bake in a large thin sheet.

  2. Once cooled, cut the cake open.

Make the peach filling

  1. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.

  2. Gradually add sugar while continuing to beat until well combined.

  3. Fold in mashed peaches gently.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fill cake with peach mixture and serve immediately.

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. Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + peachtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks, they give the filling its light, airy structure.
Sugar
Added to the whipped whites, it stabilises the foam and adds sweetness.
Mashed peaches
Folded in for fruit flavour and moisture in the filling.

The step that matters

Beating the egg whites to stiff peaks. Under-beaten whites stay runny and deflate the filling, while over-beaten whites turn dry and grainy. Adding sugar gradually helps the foam hold its shape.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar. 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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