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Potato Pie, with Sausage-meat

A baked potato and sausage mixture encased in pie crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato Pie, with Sausage-meat

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.

Prepare

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

  2. Line the edges of a pie dish with pie crust and butter the inside thickly.

Make the filling

  1. Mash the potatoes with pepper, salt, egg, and enough milk to make a thick batter. Mix in the seasoned sausage meat.

  2. Fill the pie dish with the potato and sausage mixture.

Bake

  1. Cover with another layer of pie crust.

  2. Bake for about 45 minutes until golden brown.

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. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Potato + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Milk + meattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,703 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the filling and give it a soft, starchy body when mashed.
Egg
Binds the mashed potato so the filling holds together when baked.
Milk
Adds moisture so the mashed potato becomes a spreadable, thick batter.
Seasoned sausage meat
Supplies the main flavour and fat, browning and seasoning the filling as it bakes.

The step that matters

Mashing the potato batter to the right thickness. If the potato is too thin, the filling stays loose and wet; if too stiff, it bakes dense. Adding milk gradually lets you reach a thick, spreadable batter that sets cleanly in the oven.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, egg, milk, meat. 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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