Name: Baised Pie
Ingredients: pastry; egg; good gravy; butter; parsley

Why it works: Butter and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28,563 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Baised Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make a hollow in the middle of the pastry and knead it to ensure even thickness.
Fill the pie with your desired filling.
Roll out the remaining pastry for the top, moisten the edges with a little egg, and place it on the pie.
Press down securely and pinch the edges with a pastry pincher.
Create a small hole in the center and decorate with pastry ornaments.
Brush the top with egg and bake in a well-heated oven at 400°F (200°C).
Once baked, remove from the oven and pour in a little good gravy, which will set when cold.
If using a mold, butter it and line it with firm pastry before filling and covering as described.

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.

Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together28,563 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,765 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).