Name: Pine Apple Pie
Ingredients: 1 cup grated pineapple; ½ cup sugar; pie crust for top and bottom

Why it works: Pineapple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,841 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pine Apple Pie

Ingredients

1 cup grated pineapple
½ cup sugar
pie crust for top and bottom

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

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
In a bowl, combine the grated pineapple and sugar.

Bake and serve

Place the mixture in a pie crust and cover with another crust.
Bake for 30 minutes.

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.

Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Grated pineapple: Provides the fruit filling and its moisture and tart-sweet flavour.
Sugar: Sweetens the filling and helps draw out juice from the pineapple.
Pie crust: Forms the structure that holds the filling in and browns during baking.

“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.