Name: Creamed Pea Patties
Ingredients: 1 rich pie crust; 1 cup white sauce; 1 can green peas

Why it works: Sauce and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,109 recipes. The science ↓

Creamed Pea Patties

Ingredients

1 rich pie crust
1 cup white sauce
1 can green peas

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Line cupcake pans with the pie crust.

Fill and bake

Pour the white sauce into the crust.
Add the can of green peas to the sauce and mix well.
Bake until the crust is golden and fully cooked.

Serve

Serve as a side dish.

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.

Sauce + peastop 27% of all pairs

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What each ingredient does

Rich pie crust: Forms the cup-shaped shell that holds the filling while it bakes.
White sauce: Provides a creamy, moist filling that sets as it bakes.
Green peas: Supply the main filling, adding body, mild sweetness and color.

“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.