Why it works: Pineapple and saffron work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓
Pine Apple Dkessed Ice
Ingredients
Directions
Make Pineapple Water Ice and color it with an infusion of saffron.
Freeze the mixture and pour it into a pineapple ice mold.
Bury the mold in pounded ice and salt for 1 hour.
Carefully unmold by dipping the mold in cold water.
Serve on vine leaves and place a real pineapple head on top.
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.
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Pineapple + saffrontop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together20 recipes
Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
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