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Another Way to Make Mince Pies

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Another Way to Make Mince Pies

Why it works: Nutmeg and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,686 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Mince Pies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stone and chop the bloom raisins.

  2. Chop the orange peel and mince the apples.

  3. Pound the sweet almonds to a paste with a little white wine.

  4. Grate the nutmeg and grind the Jamaica pepper, clove, and cinnamon.

  5. Mix all ingredients extremely well.

  6. Add the white wine and brandy.

  7. Pack the mixture closely into small stone jars and cover with paper.

  8. When ready to use, add a little more wine.

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. Nutmeg + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Almond + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Raisin + nutmegtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, apple, almond, white wine, nutmeg, pepper, clove):

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Plumbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, apple, almond, white wine, nutmeg, pepper, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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