Name: Sour Milk Pie with Raisins
Ingredients: 1 cup chopped raisins 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn; 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn; 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn; 2 eggs 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn; 1 tablespn; 2 crusts may use juice; 1 lemon instead of butter

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Sour Milk Pie with Raisins

Ingredients

1 cup chopped raisins 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn
1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn
1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn
2 eggs 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn
1 tablespn
2 crusts may use juice
1 lemon instead of butter

Directions

1 cup chopped raisins 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup sour milk 1 tablespn. butter flavoring if desired 2 crusts
May use juice and grated rind of 1 lemon instead of butter.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

452Calories

15 gProtein

25 gFat

45 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sour Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12

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

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,481 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Raisin + lemontop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,742 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Raisin + milktop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,155 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).
Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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 (sugar, egg, milk, lemon, butter):

Vanillafits better
Figfits better
Peachfits about as well
Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, milk, lemon, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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Sour Milk Pie with Raisins