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Pie Filling

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and syrup work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 742 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pie Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare and slice the apples into slightly salted cold water.

  2. Pack the apples carefully into jars to minimize syrup use.

  3. Pour syrup over the apples as you would for canning whole apples.

  4. Seal the jars with rubbers and tops, adjusting the spring as needed.

  5. Sterilize for 12 minutes, adjusting time based on apple quality.

  6. Do not cook long enough to reduce the apples to apple sauce.

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. Apple + syruptop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together742 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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