Name: Peaches and Pears
Ingredients: Peaches; Bartlett pears; Ice; Peach leaves or fennel sprigs; Powdered sugar

Why it works: Peach and bartlett pear work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Peaches and Pears

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and arrange

Select the finest peaches and pears, handling them gently.
Arrange them on a flat dish or salver, placing bits of ice between the fruit.

Garnish and serve

Garnish with peach leaves or sprigs of fennel.
Serve with powdered sugar for dipping after paring and quartering the fruit.

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.

Peach + bartlett peartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Bartlett pear + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together83 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches: Provide the main fruit flavor and juicy, sweet texture of the dish.
Bartlett pears: Add a second fruit with a soft, sweet, juicy flesh that pairs with the peaches.
Powdered sugar: Sweetens the fruit for dipping and dissolves easily on the cut surfaces.