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French Oyster Pie

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Why it works: Pepper and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,257 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

French Oyster Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Butter inside of deep dish, line it with puff paste rolled out rather thick ; prepare another sheet of paste for the lid. Set in the oven and bake well. While paste is cooking prepare oysters. Put on to cook with barely enough of the liquor to prevent burning. Season with whole pepper, blades of mace, grated nut- meg, and the grated rind of a lemon and a little finely minced celery. Add x/\ pound butter, divided into bits and slightly dredged with flour.

  2. Let oysters simmer over the fire, but do not allow them to boil. Beat the yolks of 3 eggs and stir into the oysters a 'few minutes before taking from the fire. Put into the dish lined with the paste, and put on the lid.

  3. Oyster pies are generally eaten warm, but are very good cold.

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

84Calories
6 gProtein
5 gFat
2 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Macenot 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.

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal 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.

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. Pepper + macetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,257 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

  3. Egg + macetop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,587 recipes

Pepper and mace barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,257 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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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