Name: Pineapple Ice
Ingredients: 1 pound sugar; 2 pounds grated pineapple; 1 pint water

Why it works: Sugar and pineapple 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 Ice

Ingredients

1 pound sugar
2 pounds grated pineapple
1 pint water

Directions

Grate the pineapple.
Combine the grated pineapple with sugar and water.
Freeze the mixture until solid.

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.

Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Sugar: Sweetens the ice and lowers its freezing point so it stays softer.
Grated pineapple: Provides the main flavor and moisture that freezes into the ice.
Water: Adds liquid that freezes into the ice and carries the sugar and fruit.

“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.