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Pie Crust Supporter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and butter 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 ↓

Pie Crust Supporter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Pack the fruit into the pie dish, filling it to the rim, and sprinkle with sugar.

  3. Grease the rim of the dish with greasy paper.

  4. Roll out the pastry to ¼ inch thick and cut strips 1 inch wide.

  5. Lay the strips around the edge of the dish, slightly overlapping.

  6. Wet the upper surface of the strips with water.

  7. Lift the pastry with a rolling pin and lay it over the dish evenly.

  8. Cut around the dish with a sharp knife and stamp the edge with a floured fork.

  9. If using a jar or egg-cup as a supporter, make a blow-hole in the crust with a knife.

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. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Flour and butter 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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