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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

  1. Mary P. Moffett, Sharpsburg, Ky.

  2. iy2 pints milk. I io-cent can shredded

  3. Beat all well together and bake in raw crust till firm. •

  4. PUMPKIN PIE No. i.

  5. Mrs. Perrine Spellman.

  6. 2 eggs. i teaspoon vanilla. I cup sugar. Pinch of salt.

  7. I small cup pumpkin. I tablespoon flour.

  8. i teaspoon cinnamon, I pint of milk.

  9. Mix well together, put in open crust, and bake.

  10. PUMPKIN PIE No. 2.

  11. Mrs. Fannie Smith Tobey.

  12. i cup stewed pumpkin, I heaping tablespoon bread

  13. strained. crumbs.

  14. ½ cup sugar. l/± teaspoon ginger.

  15. 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.

  16. Pies. 1 5 1

  17. RAISIN PIE No. i.

  18. Mrs. Elmer R. Shipley.

  19. I cup raisins. Yolks of 2 eggs.

  20. 1 cup bread crumbs. Juice of 1 lemon.

  21. 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.

  22. RAISIN PIE No. 2.

  23. Mrs. Homer Gard.

  24. 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.

  25. TRANSPARENT PIE No. 1.

  26. Mrs. Paul M. Hooven.

  27. 1 scant cup butter. few drops of water.

  28. 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.

  29. TRANSPARENT PIE No. 2.

  30. Mrs. Mary P. Moffett, Sharpsburg, Ky.

  31. 4 egg"s (yolks). J/2 cup rich cream.

  32. 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.

  33. This will make two large or twelve small pies.

  34. 1 5 2 Pies.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1061Calories
30 gProtein
33 gFat
166 gCarbs

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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Raisin1 small box (28g)85
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pienot 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.

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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.

  1. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked 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):

  1. Cinnamonthe original
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Capersfits less well
  4. 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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