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Preserved Peaches

Peaches preserved by boiling with sugar syrup.

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 ↓

Preserved Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Pare, halve, or quarter the peaches and crack the stones to remove the kernels.

  2. Put the peach parings and kernels into a preserving kettle with a little water and boil until tender.

  3. Remove the peaches and spread them on a large dish to cool.

  4. Strain the liquid through a sieve or bag.

Make the syrup

  1. The next day, add 1 pound of sugar to each pint of the liquid and dissolve.

  2. Combine the liquid and dissolved sugar in the kettle with the peaches and boil slowly until soft, skimming regularly.

Jar and serve

  1. Transfer the peaches to jars and pour the warm liquid over them.

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

Large free-stone peaches
Provide the fruit that softens and sweetens during slow boiling in the syrup.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the liquor and helps preserve the peaches by drawing out water.

The step that matters

Boiling slowly until soft, skimming regularly. Boiling too hard can break the peaches apart and make the syrup cloudy, while skimming removes foam and impurities that would spoil the preserve's clarity. Slow heat lets the fruit soften evenly while the sugar concentrates.

“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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