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Grape Pie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,284 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Grape Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix grape preserve with cream.

  2. Spread the mixture between layers of cake just before serving.

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. Grape + creamtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,284 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

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