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Vegetable Pie

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and artichoke match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 140 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetable Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash all vegetables thoroughly.

  2. Cut celery, turnips, carrots, onions, artichokes, cauliflower, broccoli, and asparagus as described.

  3. Boil each vegetable separately in enough water to cover them until tender.

  4. Strain the cooking liquid into one saucepan and place the vegetables in another.

  5. Add the strained liquid to the saucepan with ½ pint of strong consommé.

  6. Thicken the mixture with flour and water, then season with cayenne pepper, coarse sea salt, and lemon juice.

  7. Let it boil for 10 minutes, then strain it over the vegetables.

  8. Simmer the vegetables together.

  9. Serve in a raised pie crust or a deep dish with a raised crust baked around it, 2 inches high.

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. Turnip + artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Turnip + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Artichoke + asparagustop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Artichoke + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, turnip, carrot, artichoke, cauliflower, asparagus, flour):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Endivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, turnip, carrot, artichoke, cauliflower, asparagus, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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