Skip to main content
Dessert

Strawberry Pie

A pie with a biscuit crust filled with strawberries and topped with meringue.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Biscuit and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,874 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Strawberry Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the crust

  1. Line a pie plate with rich biscuit dough and prick the bottom to let out air.

  2. Bake the crust until golden and let it cool.

Fill and top

  1. Fill the cooled crust with fresh ripe strawberries and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

  2. In a bowl, whip the egg whites until soft peaks form, then gradually add 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar until stiff peaks form.

  3. Spread the meringue over the strawberries.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven just long enough to set the meringue without cooking the berries.

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. Biscuit + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Biscuit + eggtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,643 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Rich biscuit dough
Forms the crust that holds the filling and bakes up golden and crisp.
Fresh ripe strawberries
Provide the fruit filling, adding moisture and fresh, sweet-tart flavor.
Egg whites
Whipped into a foam that sets into a light meringue topping.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the berries and, dissolved into the whites, stabilizes the meringue.

The step that matters

Baking the meringue just until set. Meringue sets with gentle heat, while strawberries release juice and soften when overheated. Stopping once the topping sets keeps the crust crisp and the berries fresh-tasting.

“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.

You might also like

Baking Powder BiscuitBaking Powder Biscuit119 recipesSour Milk BiscuitSour Milk Biscuit27 recipesButter BiscuitButter Biscuit8 recipesBiscuit PuddingBiscuit Pudding7 recipes