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Canned Pine-apple

A preserved pineapple made by canning chopped pineapple with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Canned Pine-apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pare the pineapple and remove the eyes.

  2. Chop the pineapple finely and weigh it.

Macerate and can

  1. Mix the chopped pineapple with an equal weight of sugar in a large bowl.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.

  3. Fill cans with the mixture, sealing them tightly.

  4. Check the cans for signs of fermentation after two weeks.

  5. If fermentation is present, heat the contents and reseal the cans.

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

Pineapple
Provides the fruit base and flavor that the sugar preserves.
Sugar
Draws out moisture and sweetens the fruit, helping preserve it against spoilage.

The step that matters

Sealing the cans tightly. Tight sealing keeps air and microbes out. Any gap lets fermentation begin, which is why the cans are checked after two weeks and reheated if signs appear.

“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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