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Mince Pie with Hard Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 255 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mince Pie with Hard Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve the pie very hot.

  2. Pour 1 tablespoon of hard sauce over each piece of pie.

  3. Boil Italian chestnuts for 45 minutes.

  4. Remove chestnuts from water and place on a doily to serve.

  5. Use small fruit knives to peel the chestnuts.

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. Sauce + chestnuttop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together255 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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