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Pineapple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made with heavy cream, sugar, grated pineapple, lemon juice, and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Pineapple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, beat the egg and sugar together until light, then mix in the grated pineapple and lemon juice.

  2. Add the heavy cream just before freezing the mixture.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Adds richness and fat, giving the frozen ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and keeps the frozen ice cream softer by lowering its freezing point.
Egg
Adds richness and helps bind the mixture into a smooth base when beaten with sugar.
Grated pineapple
Provides the main pineapple flavor and some moisture to the base.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavor and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Add the heavy cream just before freezing the mixture.. Cream added too early can be deflated or over-whipped by handling, and the mixture should go to the freezer soon after combining so ice crystals stay small and the texture stays smooth.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, lemon, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, lemon, egg. 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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