Name: Meat Pie
Ingredients: two pounds of round steak; a small piece of butter; one large onion cut fine; pepper; salt

Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Meat Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Cut cold roast beef or veal in small pieces, an inch in size; put into stew-pan ; cover with water; add good- sized piece butter, one large onion cut fine ; season with pepper and salt ; boil until onion is tender ; thicken the gravy with flour.
Paste for Meat Pie. — Make the same as for baking- powder biscuit, except adding more butter.
Mrs. L. H. Gushing.
.mock goose. I'ake two pounds of round steak, pound well, lay on table ; take small bowl of cold mashed potatoes, a small onion chopped very fine, pepper, salt, and a sprinkle of sage, and a small piece of butter: mix well together, spread on steak ; roll it up and fasten firm with string or skewers; put small pieces of salt pork around it and a little butter ; keep well basted, and bake two hours ; serve with nice brown gravy.
Mrs. J. Kyle.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

402Calories

28 gProtein

27 gFat

12 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By Chippewa Falls, Wis. Episcopal church. Ladies aid 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.

Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together42,912 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85,593 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).