Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓
Raspberry Pie
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Assemble
Line a shallow pudding dish or deep plate with pie crust.
Fill with raspberries.
Mix granulated sugar and flour, then sprinkle over the berries.
Cover with a thick sheet of crust.
Make several incisions in the crust for steam to escape.
Bake and serve
Bake at 400°F (200°C) until the crust is a delicate brown.
Serve cool.
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.
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Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together92,116 recipes
Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
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What each ingredient does
- Pie crust
- Encloses the filling and browns in the oven to form the structure of the pie.
- Raspberries
- Provide the main fruit filling and its tart flavor and juice.
- Granulated sugar
- Sweetens the filling and balances the tartness of the raspberries.
- All-purpose flour
- Thickens the juices released by the berries so the filling does not run.
The step that matters
Make the incisions in the top crust. Cuts let steam escape during baking. Without them, trapped steam can build pressure, lift or split the crust, and make the juices bubble out unevenly.
“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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