Name: Cream Pie
Ingredients: 1 pre-baked pie crust; apple jelly; cream

Why it works: Apple and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,089 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cream Pie

Ingredients

1 pre-baked pie crust
apple jelly
cream

Directions

Spread a thin layer of apple jelly on the pre-baked pie crust.
Pour the cream on top of the jelly.
Optionally, add bits of jelly on top of the cream.

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.

Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,089 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Pre-baked pie crust: Forms the base that holds the filling in place.
Apple jelly: Adds sweetness and a fruity layer between the crust and the cream.
Cream: Provides the rich, soft filling that sits on top of the jelly.

“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.