Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Pineapple Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Mary P. Moffett, Sharpsburg, Ky.
iy2 pints milk. I io-cent can shredded
Beat all well together and bake in raw crust till firm. •
PUMPKIN PIE No. i.
Mrs. Perrine Spellman.
2 eggs. i teaspoon vanilla. I cup sugar. Pinch of salt.
I small cup pumpkin. I tablespoon flour.
i teaspoon cinnamon, I pint of milk.
Mix well together, put in open crust, and bake.
PUMPKIN PIE No. 2.
Mrs. Fannie Smith Tobey.
i cup stewed pumpkin, I heaping tablespoon bread
strained. crumbs.
½ cup sugar. l/± teaspoon ginger.
Well-dried bread is prepared by grinding and sifting. Line pie pan with pastry and fill with mixture. Then add 2 table- spoons of cream. Do not stir cream in, but spread over top. Add generous sprinkle of nutmeg. Bake 30 minutes in hot oven.
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RAISIN PIE No. i.
Mrs. Elmer R. Shipley.
I cup raisins. Yolks of 2 eggs.
1 cup bread crumbs. Juice of 1 lemon.
Stew raisins 10 minutes. Add bread crumbs, juice of lemon, and cook until thick. When cool, put into baked crust, put whites of eggs beaten stiff over top, and brown in oven.
RAISIN PIE No. 2.
Mrs. Homer Gard.
Cover the raisins with water and let soak for 2 hours. Beat the egg and sugar together until very light ; add the grated rind and juice of lemon, the flour, and cornstarch. Then add the raisins and water in which they have been soaked; cook until thick. Cool and bake in two crusts.
TRANSPARENT PIE No. 1.
Mrs. Paul M. Hooven.
1 scant cup butter. few drops of water.
Cream all together. Put a thin layer of good jelly in pie pan lined with pie dough; then fill with the transparent filling; then add another thin layer of jelly on top of whole mixture, and bake in moderate oven.
TRANSPARENT PIE No. 2.
Mrs. Mary P. Moffett, Sharpsburg, Ky.
4 egg"s (yolks). J/2 cup rich cream.
To the yolks of 4 eggs, well beaten, add flour and sugar, and beat well; add cream and butter; lastly the whites of eggs well beaten. Beat all together.
This will make two large or twelve small pies.
1 5 2 Pies.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Raisin | 1 small box (28g) | 85 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pie | 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.
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.
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Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together9,075 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together5,390 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together17,341 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together12,655 recipes
Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the cinnamon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, milk, bread, flour, raisin, cream, egg):
- Cinnamonthe original
- Nutmegfits about as well
- Capersfits less well
- Turmericfits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, bread, flour, raisin, cream, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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