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Raised French Pie

A savory pie filled with veal, mushrooms, ham, chicken, sweetbread, and seasoned with pepper, salt, and sweet herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Raised French Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

  2. Raise a crust about 3 inches high.

Fill and bake

  1. Layer in slices of veal, mushrooms, ham, chicken, more mushrooms, and sweetbread.

  2. Season with pepper, salt, and sweet herbs.

  3. Cover the pie and place it in the oven.

  4. Bake for about 2 hours.

  5. When done, pour off the fat and add 6 hard-boiled yolks of eggs.

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. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  3. Veal + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  4. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Ham + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main meat body and rich savory flavor as it cooks slowly.
Sweetbread
Adds a tender, delicate texture and richness to the filling.
Chicken
Contributes savory meat flavor and body to the long-baked filling.
Ham
Adds salty, smoky depth that seasons the surrounding meat and mushrooms.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and moisture that blends into the filling as it bakes.
Hard-boiled egg yolks (in the method)
Add richness and a creamy texture to the finished filling.

The step that matters

Pour off the fat before adding the yolks. Fat rendered from the meat floats on the cooking liquid. Removing it keeps the filling from tasting greasy and lets the mashed yolks blend into a smoother, lighter texture.

“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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