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Pumpkiit Pie

A simple pumpkin pie made with a pie crust, pumpkin puree, egg white, and powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pumpkiit Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Roll out the pie crust.

  3. Place the rolled crust in a pie tin.

  4. Fill the crust with pumpkin puree.

  5. Press the edges of the crust together.

Bake and finish

  1. Score the surface of the pie with a knife to mark cutting lines.

  2. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes.

  3. Brush the top with beaten egg white.

  4. Sprinkle the top with powdered sugar.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  2. Pumpkin + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,350 recipes

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

  3. Pumpkin + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,985 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Pie crust
Forms the shell that holds the filling while it bakes.
Pumpkin puree
Provides the main filling, adding moisture and flavour to the pie.
Egg white
Brushed on top to help the surface brown and give a glossy finish.
Powdered sugar
Sprinkled on top to add sweetness to the surface.

Swap the pumpkin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

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

“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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