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Eemox Pie

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By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and tea work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 610 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Eemox Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. The yolks of three eggs ; one cup of sugar, half cup of milk, one teaspoon of cornstarch, grated rind and juice of one lemon ; juice put in last ; meringue — whites of three eggs and three tablespoons of sugar. — Mrs. J. A. J. Rooker, Fayette, Mo.

  2. 78 THE MISSOURI COOK BOOK.

  3. I.EMOX PIE.

  4. Five eggs, one and a half cups of sugar, four table- spoons of flour, one teaspoon of " citric acid," dissolved in a little warm water ; tablespoon of lemon extract ; to three whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, add one tea- cup of sugar ; place on the top of pies, and brown slightly. — 3Irs. Solon SmitJi, Fayette., Mo.

By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the. 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.

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. Lemon + teatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together610 recipes

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

  2. Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, milk, egg, flour, tea):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  3. Figabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, egg, flour, tea. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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