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Dutch Apple Pie

A fruit pie with sliced apples, oats, flour, cinnamon, sweetener, and apple juice, topped with a crumbly oat and flour mixture.

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Why it works: Cinnamon and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,287 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Dutch Apple Pie

Oven400°F
Time45–55 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix flour, oats, cinnamon, and sweetener with a fork.

  2. Pour mixture over sliced apples and mix well.

  3. Pour apple juice over the apples and mix well again.

  4. Put apple mixture in pie crust; set aside.

Make the topping

  1. For topping, mix dry ingredients with a fork.

  2. Add butter and cut into dry ingredients with a pastry blender or two knives until it resembles coarse crumbs.

Bake

  1. Pour topping mixture over pie filling and press down evenly over apples.

  2. Bake at 400°F for 45–55 minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

873Calories
19 gProtein
16 gFat
162 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 11 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Pienot in our table0
Toppingnot in our table0
Puddingnot 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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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Oats + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Oats + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,394 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Apple + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,501 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Sliced baking apples
Provide the main fruit filling that softens and sweetens as the pie bakes.
Butter or margarine
Fat that cuts into the flour and oats to form crumbly, tender topping pieces.
Quick cooking oats
Add a chewy, hearty texture to the filling and the crumb topping.
Flour
Thickens the juices and gives the crumb topping its structure.
Sweetener
Adds sweetness to the apple filling and the brown-sugar-style topping.

The step that matters

Cutting in the butter. The butter should be cut into the dry ingredients until it forms coarse crumbs. Small, cold-ish fat pieces melt unevenly in the oven, giving a crisp, crumbly topping instead of a greasy or dense one.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, oats, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla, butter):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, oats, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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