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Preserved Pineapple Chips,wet

A preserved pineapple chip made by layering pineapple slices with sugar, boiling, drying, and dusting with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Preserved Pineapple Chips,wet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Remove the top and ends of the pineapple and slice it into 1/5 inch thick pieces.

  2. In a deep earthen pan, layer sugar and pineapple slices alternately, finishing with a thick layer of sugar on top.

  3. Cover the pan with paper and let it sit until the sugar almost melts.

Boil and steep

  1. Boil the mixture for 30 minutes, then return it to the pan.

  2. Repeat the boiling process daily for eight days.

  3. After the final boil, drain the syrup completely.

Dry and store

  1. If the syrup is too thick, dip the chips in a little water and wipe them dry.

  2. Place the chips on a dry sieve to dry completely.

  3. Dust the chips with powdered sugar using a cloth bag.

  4. Place the chips in a warm oven until they are no longer sticky.

  5. Store the dried chips in a box or drawer lined with clean white paper.

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

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit body and flavour of the chips.
Sugar
Draws out moisture and preserves the fruit, while sweetening and firming the chips.

The step that matters

Repeated boiling over eight days. Sugar must penetrate the fruit gradually; boiling too hard or too soon can break the slices apart or leave them tough. Repeated gentle boiling lets syrup replace water in the pineapple slowly, preserving shape and texture.

“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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