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Pineapple Au Vin Blanc

A chilled pineapple dessert soaked in white wine and sugar, served over pounded ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and white wine work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 45 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Au Vin Blanc

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare, slice, and dice the pineapple.

Macerate and serve

  1. Layer the pineapple in a dish, alternating with layers of sugar until all the pineapple is used.

  2. Pour enough white wine over the layers to cover them.

  3. Let the dish stand for two hours.

  4. Stir well before serving, then place in tall glasses and cover with pounded ice.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pineapple + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + white winetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavor and juicy texture of the dish.
Sugar
Draws juice out of the pineapple and sweetens the wine mixture.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma and soaks into the fruit as it stands.

The step that matters

Let the dish stand for two hours. Sugar needs time to draw juice out of the pineapple and mix with the wine. Standing lets the fruit soften and absorb the liquid, so the flavor develops evenly.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, white wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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