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To Preserve Pine Apples

A method of preserving pineapples by boiling them, layering with sugar, and storing in syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

To Preserve Pine Apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Wash the pineapples without peeling or removing the leaves.

  2. Place the pineapples whole in a pot with enough cold water to cover them.

  3. Boil the pot over low heat until the pineapples are tender throughout.

  4. Remove the pot from heat and let the pineapples drain until cool.

  5. Remove the leaves from the pineapples and peel them.

  6. Cut the pineapples in half, then into quarters, removing any hard pieces.

Layer with sugar

  1. Weigh the pineapple and use one pound of sugar for every pound of pineapple.

  2. Cover the bottom of a large dish with sugar.

  3. Layer the pineapple and sugar in the dish, using all the sugar and reserving some for the top.

  4. Let the layers sit for 24 hours.

  5. Remove the pineapple from the syrup and let it drain.

Make the syrup and jar

  1. Boil the syrup slowly, skimming off any scum until it stops rising.

  2. Pour the hot syrup evenly into small jars over the pineapple.

  3. Seal each jar with paper and store in a dry, cool place.

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

Pineapples
Provide the fruit that becomes tender and sweet as it is cooked and preserved in sugar.
Sugar
Draws moisture out of the fruit and forms a syrup that preserves it and adds sweetness.

The step that matters

Boiling the syrup and skimming it. Sugar syrup must be boiled until scum stops rising so impurities are removed and the syrup stays clear and stable in storage. Pouring it hot over the fruit helps seal the jars against spoilage.

“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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