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Raised Pie the Russian Way

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,015 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Raised Pie the Russian Way

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the salmon into scallops and season with fines herbes, coarse sea salt, black pepper, and nutmeg.

  2. Do the same with the fat liver.

  3. Chop the hard-boiled egg yolks.

  4. Prepare the crust as directed in recipe No. 318.

  5. Line the bottom and sides of the crust with cold rice stewed in fowl consomme.

  6. Layer the bottom with salmon scallops and sprinkle with egg yolk.

  7. Add half of the fat liver scallops and cover with egg yolk.

  8. Repeat the layering process.

  9. Top with butter mixed with fines herbes used for the salmon and liver.

  10. Cover the entire pie with the remaining rice.

  11. Bake for 1.5 hours and serve.

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. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Nutmeg + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Nutmeg + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, pepper, liver, egg, rice, butter):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Nutmegthe original
  4. Turmericfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, liver, egg, rice, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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