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Mango Pie

A pie with stewed mangoes and optional cinnamon, topped with a second crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 126 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Mango Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Assemble the pie

  1. Fill the pie shell with stewed mangoes.

  2. Sprinkle cinnamon over the mangoes if desired.

  3. Cover with the second pie crust.

Bake

  1. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the crust is golden brown.

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.

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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. Mango + cinnamontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together126 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Stewed mangoes
Provide the main fruit filling, with sweetness and moisture that softens during baking.
Pie crust
Forms the shell and top that enclose the filling and brown in the oven.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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