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Pine Apple Water Ice

A chilled pineapple syrup and lemon water mixture frozen into ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pine Apple Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the pineapple syrup, lemon juice, and water, and mix well until rich and thick.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a mold and cover it with a sheet of paper.

  2. Surround the mold with ice and salt, and let it sit for one hour.

  3. After an hour, remove from the mold and serve.

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.

Explore the science

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 + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pineapple syrup
Provides most of the sweetness and the tropical pineapple flavor.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Surrounding the mold with ice and salt. Salt lowers the freezing point of the melting ice, so the surrounding brine becomes colder than plain ice. This cold is what freezes the mixture, so the ice and salt need enough contact and time to set it.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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