Name: Cream Pie
Ingredients: one pint of cream; one heaping tea- spoon of flour

Why it works: Cream and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,481 recipes. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

Cream Pie

Ingredients

one pint of cream
one heaping tea- spoon of flour

Directions

MRS. HAKKNESS.
One pint of cream, white of one ^^^^ and one heaping tea- spoon of flour. Sweeten and flavor to the taste. > Paste as for custard pie.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

506Calories

13 gProtein

7 gFat

95 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51

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

By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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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.

Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).
Cream + teatop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together463 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Tea + flourtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together449 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).