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Raised Pork Pie

A pastry-wrapped pork pie with a raised crust, filled with seasoned pork and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Raised Pork 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.

Prepare the pie

  1. Prepare a raised crust pastry about 4 inches high.

  2. Cut the pork into chops.

  3. Beat the chopped pork with a chopper.

  4. Season the pork with pepper and salt.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the pie with the seasoned pork mixture.

  2. Cover the pie with the top crust.

  3. Pinch the edges to seal.

  4. Brush the top with the egg yolk.

  5. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 2 hours, covering with paper to prevent burning.

Finish

  1. Pour gravy into the pie.

  2. Add mustard if desired.

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. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pork + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,445 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Egg + mustardtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,210 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pork + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork loin
Provides the meat filling that becomes firm and savoury as it cooks.
Egg yolk
Brushed on top, it promotes a glossy, golden browned crust.
Pastry
Forms a sturdy raised shell that holds the filling during baking.

The step that matters

Covering the pie while it bakes. A long two-hour bake can scorch the top crust before the filling is cooked through. Covering it with paper shields the pastry from direct heat while the interior cooks.

Swap the mustard

The recipe marks mustard as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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