Name: Mutton Pie Plain
Ingredients: two tablespoons of flour wath cold water; one pint of boiling water; salt; pepper

Why it works: Flour and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,459 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Mutton Pie Plain

Ingredients

two tablespoons of flour wath cold water
one pint of boiling water
salt
pepper

Directions

Prepare the meat

Take cold mutton, cut into thin slices; put in a pudding dish and season with salt and pepper.
Mix two tablespoons of flour with cold water, then pour the mixture over one pint of boiling water.

Assemble and bake

Season and pour the mixture over the meat.
Make a paste as for plain pie crust, and cover the dish with it.
Bake for one hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

461Calories

13 gProtein

1 gFat

96 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

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

By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church. 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.

Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together50,459 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton (in the method): Forms the main filling, providing the savoury meat that the pie is built around.
Flour: Thickens the boiling liquid into a gravy that binds the meat together.

“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.