Name: Cream Pieplant Pie
Ingredients: 1 cup cream; 1 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon flour; enough pieplant to cover the bottom of the dish; ½ teaspoon baking soda

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Cream Pieplant Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Cut up the pieplant and add baking soda, then pour boiling water over it.
Let it stand for a few minutes, then drain.
Place the pieplant in the bottom of a well-lined pie plate.
Pour the cream over the pieplant, then add the sugar and flour.
Cut the top crust slightly larger than the bottom crust and place it over the filling without pinching down.

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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).