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Huckleberry Pie

A pie filled with huckleberries, brown sugar, flour, and salt, baked until golden.

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

Huckleberry Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Remove stems from the huckleberries and wash them.

  2. Line a pie dish with the pie crust.

  3. Fill the dish with huckleberries, about 2/3 inch deep.

  4. Sprinkle brown sugar over the berries.

  5. Dust with flour and add a pinch of salt.

  6. Cover the pie with another crust, cut a slit in the center, and seal the edges.

Bake

  1. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 40 minutes.

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. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Huckleberries
Provide the main fruit filling, supplying flavor and most of the pie's moisture.
Brown sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps draw juice out of the berries as they cook.
Flour
Thickens the juices released by the berries so the filling sets rather than running.
Pie crust
Forms the structure that holds the filling and browns during baking.

The step that matters

Dusting with flour. Flour must be spread over the berries so it mixes with their juices; unevenly dusted flour leaves dry pockets or lumps and an uneven set 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.

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