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Rock Creek Lake Fresh Strawberry Pie

"A unique strawberry pie adapted similar to the one served at Rock Creek Lake Resort in northern California. Resort owner Sue King's pies are famous to the locals, and her pies have even been written about in Sunset Magazine! Fresh strawberries in a glaze are spooned over a baked pie crust covered in sweetened cream cheese. Can also substitute peaches for strawberries and use orange juice to make peach pie, Rock Creek-style."

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Rock Creek Lake Fresh Strawberry Pie

Why it works: Cream cheese and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 285 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Rock Creek Lake Fresh Strawberry Pie

1 9-inch pie
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

664Calories
16 gProtein
12 gFat
125 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pastrynot in our table0
Pie Crustnot in our table0

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

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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. Cream cheese + strawberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together285 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Strawberry + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,206 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  4. Cream cheese + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together881 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Sugar + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, sugar, strawberry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, sugar, strawberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.