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Jelly Pie

A sweet pie made with eggs, sugar, jelly, butter, and a pie crust, topped with a whipped egg white icing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Jelly Pie

Ingredients

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 the filling

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a bowl, beat together the sugar, jelly, and butter until well combined.

  3. Add the whole eggs (reserving the whites of 2) to the mixture and mix well.

  4. Pour the mixture into the pie crust and bake until set.

Top and finish

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the reserved egg whites with enough sugar to make a thick icing.

  2. Spread the icing over the pie once it is done baking.

  3. If desired, brown the icing slightly in the oven.

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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the filling into a firm custard and add richness and structure.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and, beaten with egg whites, forms the thick icing.
Jelly
Provides the main flavor and sweetness of the filling.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture in the filling.
Egg whites
Whipped with sugar to form a thick icing that can brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Baking the filling until set. Egg proteins coagulate as the filling heats, so underbaking leaves it runny, while overbaking can make it dense and cause it to weep or crack. Watch for a set center rather than relying only on time.

“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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