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Raspberry Pie

A fruit pie filled with raspberries, sugar, flour, and butter, topped with a crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Raspberry Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Line a pie plate with the pie crust.

Fill and bake

  1. Sprinkle half of the sugar and flour in the bottom of the crust.

  2. Add the raspberries on top.

  3. Sprinkle the remaining sugar and flour over the berries.

  4. Dot with butter.

  5. Cover with the top crust and bake until golden.

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. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the main fruit filling and its juices, which the sugar and flour thicken.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and draws juice out of the berries as it dissolves.
Flour
Thickens the juices released by the berries so the filling sets rather than running.
Butter
Adds richness and aroma to the filling as it melts over the berries.
Pie crust
Forms the structure that holds the filling and browns in the oven.

The step that matters

Sprinkling the sugar and flour in the bottom of the crust. Placing the thickener beneath the berries helps it mix with the juices as they release, so the filling thickens evenly instead of pooling or staying dry.

“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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