Name: Meat Pie
Ingredients: a cup of rice; 3 onions; 2 potatoes

Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Meat Pie

Ingredients

a cup of rice
3 onions
2 potatoes

Directions

Use left-over pieces of meat and gravy as, follows: Cook half an
hour, or until tender, 2 or 3 onions, 2 potatoes, half a cup of rice (or
other vegetables) till nearly dry. Add meat and gravy, cover vdth
• biscuit crust and bake. Improved if a little gravy is saved to serve
with it. Mrs. L. C. P.
Stew any kind of cooked meat slowly until tender, thicken and sea- son the liquor to taste, add onions, tomatoes, mushrooms or any flavor preferred. Put into a deep baking dish and cover with mashed potato or with biscuit crust. Make an incision for steam to escape and bake until crust is done. Mrs. S. J.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

411Calories

10 gProtein

1 gFat

92 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44

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

By Ithaca (N.Y.) First Baptist Church. Ladies Union. 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.

Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,023 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together851 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,433 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).