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Chocolate Pie

Chocolate pie made with grated chocolate, water, egg yolks, corn starch, sugar, and egg whites, baked until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Boil chocolate and water until thick.

  2. Stir in egg yolks, corn starch, and sugar.

Top and bake

  1. Whip egg whites.

  2. Spread the whipped egg whites on top when baked.

  3. Bake until the top is lightly browned.

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. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Chocolate + corntop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

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

  4. Corn + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,168 recipes

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

  5. Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated chocolate
Provides the main chocolate flavour and colour of the filling.
Egg yolks
Thicken the filling as they set and add richness.
Corn starch
Thickens the filling by swelling in the hot liquid to a smooth, firm texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps balance the bitterness of the chocolate.
Egg whites
Whipped into a foam that forms a light, airy topping that browns in the oven.

The step that matters

Boil chocolate and water until thick. Cornstarch only thickens fully when the mixture reaches a boil, so stopping early leaves a thin filling. Stirring keeps the chocolate from scorching on the bottom of the pan.

“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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