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And Leek Pie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

And Leek Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the chicken until cooked, then cut it into tidy pieces.

  2. Flavor the chicken jelly with coarse sea salt, celery, onion, and herbs.

  3. Scald the leeks by pouring boiling water over them, then split and cut them into 1-inch pieces.

  4. In a pie dish, layer the chicken pieces, slices of cold boiled tongue, scalded leeks, fine-chopped parsley, and flavored chicken jelly.

  5. Prepare the pie crust as directed for mutton pie.

  6. Fill a baking tin with water and bake the pie.

  7. Once baked, remove the top ornament of the pie, pour in 3 tablespoons of heated fresh cream through the hole, replace the ornament, and serve.

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. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Celery + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + leektop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,326 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  4. Leek + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together759 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, celery, onion, leek, cream):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, celery, onion, leek, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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