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Bouchees with Pine Apple

A Savoy biscuit drop topped with preserved pineapple slices and glazed with pineapple-flavored icing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and pineapple share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 46 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Bouchees with Pine Apple

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare small round Savoy biscuit drops about 1½ inches in diameter.

  2. Place smaller slices of thin preserved pineapple on each biscuit drop.

  3. Gloss them over with transparent icing flavored with pineapple syrup.

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. Biscuit + pineappletop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Biscuit + syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Savoy biscuit drops
Provides a light, sponge-like base that holds the pineapple and icing.
Preserved pineapple
Adds fruity sweetness and acidity that contrast with the plain biscuit.
Transparent icing
Forms a sweet, glossy coating that seals the pineapple in place.
Pineapple syrup
Carries pineapple flavor into the icing.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, 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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