Name: Mirror Pie
Ingredients: 1 baked pie shell; 1 package gelatine; 1 cup wine; Whipped cream for serving

Why it works: Wine and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,887 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Mirror Pie

Ingredients

1 baked pie shell
1 package gelatine
1 cup wine
Whipped cream for serving

Directions

Prepare

Prepare a baked pie shell.

Make the jelly and set it

Dissolve gelatine in wine according to package instructions.
Pour the wine jelly into the baked shell and let it harden.

Serve

Serve with whipped cream.

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.

Wine + creamtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,887 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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine: Sets the wine into a firm, sliceable jelly that holds the pie's shape.
Wine: Provides the liquid and the flavour of the jelly filling.

“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.