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Graham Pie Crust

A simple pie crust made from Graham flour, baking powder, sweet cream, and optional salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,481 recipes. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

Graham Pie Crust

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Sift the baking powder with the Graham flour.

  2. Stir in sweet cream to make a soft dough.

Shape and fill

  1. Roll out the dough without kneading.

  2. Use the crust for your pie.

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. Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Graham flour
Forms the bulk of the crust, giving it its structure and nutty, coarse texture.
Baking powder
Releases gas to lighten the dough slightly so the crust is less dense.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and fat so the flour binds into a soft, workable dough.

The step that matters

Roll out the dough without kneading.. Kneading develops gluten, which makes pastry tough and elastic. Rolling gently keeps the crust tender and flaky rather than chewy and shrinking.

“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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