Name: Make Ahead Pie Crusts
Prep time: 15 min
Yield: 20 pie crusts
Ingredients: 5 pounds all-purpose flour; 3 pounds shortening; 2 (12 ounce) cans diet lemon lime soda

Make Ahead Pie Crusts

"This is an easy crust to make ahead and the amounts match the package sizes so there is no need to measure anything! These freeze great. Making pies is easy as all you have to do is thaw the crust and roll."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients

Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Make Ahead Pie Crusts

20 pie crusts

Prep15 min

Ingredients

5 pounds all-purpose flour
3 pounds shortening
2 (12 ounce) cans diet lemon lime soda

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

629Calories

14 gProtein

13 gFat

115 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,289 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Flour + limetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,381 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,404 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, lime):

Avocadofits better
Raisinfits about as well
Blueberryfits about as well
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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