Name: Cream Pieplant Pie
Ingredients: 1 cup cream; 1 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon flour

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Cream Pieplant Pie

Ingredients

1 cup cream
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour

Directions

1 cup cream, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon flour and enough pie- plant to cover bottom of dish ; cut up pieplant and add Yi teaspoon of soda and pour on boiling water; let stand on range a few min- utes; then drain and put in the bottom of a well lined pie plate; then add cream ; then sugar and last the flour ; cut top crust a little larger than bottom of pie plate and place over top without pinching down. F. C. B.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

555Calories

13 gProtein

7 gFat

108 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49

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

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).