Name: Pineapple Cream
Ingredients: 1 ripe pineapple; ½ cup pulverized sugar

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 ↓

Pineapple Cream

Ingredients

1 ripe pineapple
½ cup pulverized sugar

Directions

Prepare

Slice the pineapple finely and place it in a bowl.
Sprinkle the pulverized sugar over the pineapple.

Macerate and finish

Let it sit for a few hours to draw out the syrup.
Taste the syrup and adjust sweetness if necessary.

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.

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 main fruit flavor and the juice that forms the syrup.
Pulverized sugar: Draws juice out of the fruit and adds sweetness to the syrup.

“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.