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Fresh Peaches, Baked

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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. two tablespoons butter
  2. Peaches
  3. one cup of sugar
  4. Water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Use clingstone variety.
  2. Pare eight peaches and leave whole.
  3. Place in a baking dish and add one cup of sugar, sprinkled over the top.
  4. Add sufficient water to cover half the depth of the peaches.
  5. Place in an oven at 375° F.
  6. and bake until tender, then add two tablespoons butter and continue to cook until the syrup has thickened and the peaches are delicately brown.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Baking dish
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Credit

From New York World's Fair cook book (1939), printed page 210, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/newyorkworldsfai00gaig

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.