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Little Pies, of Anchovies and Truffles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and lemon work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 860 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Little Pies, of Anchovies and Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the truffles and place a small amount in the bottom of each pie crust.

  2. Add small pieces of anchovy on top in a cross pattern.

  3. Serve the pies very hot with lemon juice.

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. Truffle + lemontop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together860 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

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