Name: Imitation Pineapple Essence
Ingredients: 100 parts butyric acid; 100 parts alcohol; 50 parts sulfuric acid

Imitation Pineapple Essence

Ingredients

100 parts butyric acid
100 parts alcohol
50 parts sulfuric acid

Directions

Mix butyric acid, alcohol, and sulfuric acid in a container.
Shake the mixture well to combine.
Store in a sealed bottle away from light.

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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Imitation Pineapple Essence