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Apple Pie

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Apple Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare and core the apples, then wipe the outside clean.

  2. Boil the cores and peels with a little water until flavorful, then strain.

  3. Add sugar and bruised cinnamon to the strained liquid and simmer again.

  4. Place a pie crust in a dish and add a layer of apples.

  5. Sprinkle half the sugar, lemon peel, and lemon juice or cider over the apples.

  6. Add the remaining apples, sugar, and the boiled liquid.

  7. Cover with another layer of pie crust.

  8. Optionally, add butter when serving hot or flavor with quince marmalade, orange paste, or cloves.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Apple + quincetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Quince + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Cinnamon + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the quince

The recipe marks quince as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, butter, orange, clove):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Cranberryfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Quincethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, butter, orange, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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