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Raised Crust for Meat Pies, or Fowls, &C.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Raised Crust for Meat Pies, or Fowls, &C.

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil water with the lard and dripping or butter until hot.

  2. Mix in enough flour to form a stiff paste, kneading until smooth.

  3. Soak a lump of the paste in a cloth or under a pan until near cold.

  4. Roll out the paste to the desired thickness and cut out the top and bottom of the pie, plus a long piece for the sides.

  5. Cement the bottom to the sides with egg, pinching them together.

  6. Fill the pie, place the cover on, and pinch the edges together.

  7. If using a tin form, butter it before adding the paste, then bake after filling and covering.

  8. Remove the tin carefully when done, and return to the oven for 15 minutes if the sides are too light.

  9. Brush the top with egg using a feather.

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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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