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Cocoa-nut Pie

A custard pie made with eggs, milk, and cocoa-nut, baked in a pie crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa and milk work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 643 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cocoa-nut Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Beat the eggs separately.

  2. Prepare a custard pie mixture using the beaten eggs and milk.

  3. Add the cocoa-nut to the mixture.

Bake

  1. Pour into a pie crust and bake until set.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cocoa + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + cocoatop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together582 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard, giving the filling structure as it bakes.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the custard, adding moisture and softness.
Cocoa-nut
Adds flavor and texture to the custard filling.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Underbaking leaves the egg-based custard runny, while the egg proteins coagulate as the custard heats, so the pie should be baked until the filling firms.

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk):

  1. Pecansfits about as well
  2. Cocoathe original
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Walnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk. 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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