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Peanut Meal Pie Crust

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Flour and peanut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,427 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Peanut Meal Pie Crust

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the flour and peanut meal together thoroughly.

  2. Add the cold water and salt.

  3. Knead the mixture briefly until combined.

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. Flour + peanuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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