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Greex Currant Pie

A pie made with stewed green currants, sugar, soda cracker crumbs, and two pie crusts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Greex Currant Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Stew and mash the green currants until they burst, using minimal water to prevent burning.

  2. Add sugar to make the mixture very sweet and mix in the crushed soda cracker.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake the mixture between two pie crusts.

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. Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 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

What each ingredient does

Green currants
Provide the tart fruit flavour and the bulk of the filling as they break down.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart currants and balances their acidity.
Soda cracker
Crushed crackers soak up juice and help thicken the filling.

The step that matters

Stew the currants with minimal water. Currants can scorch on the bottom of the pot if too little liquid is present, so use just enough water to start and stir often while they burst and soften.

“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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