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German Pie

A peach pie made with bread dough and butter, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

German Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

  1. Work some butter into the bread dough.

  2. Cover the bottom of a pie plate or dripping pan with the dough.

  3. Let it rise for a short time.

Prepare and fill the fruit

  1. Peel the free-stone peaches.

  2. Halve if small, quarter if large.

  3. Place the peaches on the dough with the inside facing up.

  4. Fill the peaches with sugar.

Bake

  1. 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Butter + peachtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread dough
Forms the base of the pie, providing a soft, chewy structure under the fruit.
Butter
Worked into the dough to add richness and a tender crumb.
Free-stone peaches
Supply the fruit filling, with moisture and sweet flavour as they cook.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps the exposed surfaces brown as the pie bakes.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachthe original
  4. Applefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, butter, 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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