Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Feuit Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Two cupfuls of sweet cream, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of chopped raisins, four eggs, reserving whites of three for frosting.
LEMON PIE— No. 1. Juice and grated rind of one lemon, one small po- tato grated, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of water,
148 THE GOOD CHEEK COOK BOOK.
three tablespooiifuls of Hour, three eggs, reserving whites of two for frosting. Mrs. G. C. Ginty.
LEMON PIE— No. 2.
Shoe one lemon fine into a cup, after removing the peel; then fill the cup with water; add one cupful of sugar, and one tablespoonful of corn starch. Bake with two crusts. Mrs. A. Hoffman.
LEMON PIE— No. 3.
Grated rind of two lemons, one cupful of sugar, four eggs (reserving the whites of two), butter the size of an Q%^\ beat all to a cream, add lemon juice, and bake. Beat whites to a stiff froth, add three spoonfuls of sugar and spread on top ; return to oven and brown lightly. Mrs. L. H. Gushing.
LEMON PIE— No. 4.
The juice and rind of one lemon, one cupful of sugar, yolks of three eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, one of corn starch, one cupful of hot water ; cook all together, bake crust, fill with the custard, and frost. Flour can be used instead of corn starch, if preferred.
Mrs. a. Hoffman.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| 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 |
| Water | 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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Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together12,481 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Corn + lemontop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,927 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7,345 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the raisin
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, corn, butter, egg, lemon):
- Vanillafits better
- Coconutfits better
- Raspberryfits better
- Raisinthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, corn, butter, egg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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