Name: Raised Pies
Ingredients: rabbit; beef or pork sausage meat; bacon (optional); mushrooms; eggs; flaky pastry or suet pastry

Why it works: Beef and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raised Pies

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
If desired, layer beef or pork sausage meat over the rabbit.
Add bacon, mushrooms, and eggs if liked.
Partially cook the rabbit if using flaky pastry.
Cover with pastry and bake for about 1 hour.
Ensure the crust is ¾ inch thick.

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.

Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,232 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Rabbit + beeftop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together252 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Rabbit + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together406 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Mushroom + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,987 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Rabbit + eggtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together558 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).