Name: Raised Pie
Ingredients: pastry; egg; good gravy; butter; parsley

Why it works: Butter and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28,563 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Raised Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make a hollow in the middle of the pastry and knead it evenly.
Fill the pie with your desired filling.
Roll out the remaining pastry for the top, moisten edges with egg, and place it on the pie.
Press down securely and pinch the edges with a pastry tool.
Create a small hole in the center and decorate with pastry ornaments.
Brush the top with egg and bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C).
Once baked, pour in a little gravy that will jelly when cold.
If using a mold, butter it and line it with firm pastry before filling and covering.
If the pie is not browned enough, return it to the oven for an additional 15 minutes.
Serve the pie on a neatly folded napkin, garnished with parsley.

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.

Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together28,563 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,765 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).