Name: Cranberry Pot Pie
Ingredients: 1 quart cranberries; 1 pint water; ¾ pound sugar; light biscuit dough

Cranberry Pot Pie

A pot pie made with cranberries, water, sugar, and light biscuit dough, boiled and served with optional sauce, nutmeg, or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients

Why it works: Sugar and biscuit are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,874 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Cranberry Pot Pie

Ingredients

1 quart cranberries
1 pint water
¾ pound sugar
light biscuit dough

Directions

Prepare

In a kettle, combine cranberries, water, and sugar.
Cover with squares of light biscuit dough.

Cook and serve

Boil for 15 minutes.
Serve with sauce or sprinkle with nutmeg and cream.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,874 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Cranberries: Provide the tart fruit flavor and the juice that forms the filling as they cook.
Sugar: Sweetens the tart cranberries and balances their acidity.
Light biscuit dough: Cooks on top of the simmering fruit, forming the topping.

“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.