What goes well with pie shell?
We analyzed over 500,000 recipes to figure out which ingredients makes pie shell better. On average, recipes with pie shell gets 4.65⭐ review scores. But in some combinations, review scores get a lot better. And sometimes worse. Like with garlic.
Here comes the combinations we found:
Better than not:
dark rum,
allspice,
mayonnaise,
black pepper,
lemon zest,
lemon juice,
banana,
egg,
flour,
nutmeg,
bacon,
gruyère cheese,
onion,
green onions,
all purpose flour,
heavy cream,
salt,
spinach,
strawberry,
sugar,
vanilla
🤷♀️ Shrug:
margarine,
butter,
bourbon,
brown sugar,
coconut,
american food,
milk,
cream,
granulated sugar,
buttermilk,
apple,
cornflour,
egg whites,
thyme,
whipped cream
Makes everything worse: garlic
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Remember this is how people score them online. A bad combination might not be a bad combination. It might be hard to cook or people make poor substitutions. If you think it makes sense to use something, just pay extra attention.
Here are some great recipes I found with pie shell:
Clam Pie
cooking.nytimes.comReview: 4.65/5 Dish Dragon Score: 6.2/10
Apricot Tart
cooking.nytimes.comReview: 4/5 Dish Dragon Score: 5.8/10
Grape Hull Pie
cooking.nytimes.comReview: 4.65/5 Dish Dragon Score: 5/10