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Ohelo Pie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Ohelo Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the ohelos with a little sugar and either orange marmalade, guava jelly, or lemon slices.

  2. Pour off most of the juice.

  3. Make a pie with two crusts, slatting the top crust like an old-fashioned cranberry tart.

  4. Add cream for an improvement.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Orange + guavatop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Guava + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the guava

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, orange, lemon, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Guavathe original

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

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