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Raised Pie

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,331 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Raised Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make hot-water paste according to recipe No. 1686.

  2. Using your hands, raise the pie crust or cut out pieces for the top and bottom, and a long piece for the sides.

  3. Attach the bottom and side pieces with beaten egg, pinching the edges together.

  4. Line the pie with forcemeat, then add a layer of veal seasoned with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and allspice.

  5. Layer sliced bacon or cooked ham, then repeat layers of forcemeat, veal, and bacon until the meat rises about an inch above the paste.

  6. Finish with a layer of forcemeat to fill all cavities and pack the meat tightly.

  7. Brush the top edge with beaten egg, place the cover on, and pinch the edges with a paste pincher.

  8. Make a hole in the center of the lid and decorate with leaves stuck on with egg white.

  9. Brush the entire pie with beaten yolk.

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. Nutmeg + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pepper + allspicetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Veal + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, ham, pepper, nutmeg, egg):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Clovefits about as well
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, ham, pepper, nutmeg, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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