Skip to main content

Bacon & Egg Pies

Individual shortcrust pastries that fall somewhere between a Scotch egg and a Gala pie - super for a summer spread

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Bacon & Egg Pies

Why it works: Onion and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 214 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Bacon & Egg Pies

MAKES 12
Prep35 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

841Calories
24 gProtein
35 gFat
106 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 10 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Pastrynot in our table0
Macenot in our table0
Quailnot in our table0
Poppy Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Onion + poppy seedtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + poppy seedtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + quailtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  5. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour 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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, onion, egg, quail, poppy seed):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, onion, egg, quail, poppy seed. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.