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Huckleberry Pie

A pie filled with huckleberries, flour, sugar, water, and currant juice, topped with a crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Berry and flour share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Huckleberry Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare a crust for a berry pie.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the crust with huckleberries.

  2. Sprinkle the berries with flour and sugar.

  3. Add a little water and 2 tablespoons of currant juice.

  4. Cover with a top crust and bake until golden.

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. Berry + flourtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Berry + curranttop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Berry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Flour + curranttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,077 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Huckleberries
Provide the main fruit filling and its characteristic tart, sweet flavor.
Flour
Thickens the juices released by the berries so the filling sets rather than running.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the tartness of the berries.
Currant juice
Adds extra acidity and fruit flavor to the filling.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (berry, flour, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against berry, flour, sugar. 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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