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Whole Pine Apple

A pineapple is boiled, then repeatedly simmered in syrup, and stored in dry pans.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and syrup work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 568 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Whole Pine Apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Break off the top and stem of the pineapple and trim it well.

  2. Prick the pineapple all over with a fork.

  3. Boil the pineapple in a pan of water until tender.

  4. Remove the pineapple and place it in cold water.

  5. Drain the pineapple.

  6. Place the pineapple in a glass jar or pan.

Syrup and soak

  1. Boil enough syrup to cover the pineapple until it reaches a thread consistency.

  2. Pour the syrup over the pineapple.

  3. Let the pineapple sit for two to three days.

  4. Drain off the syrup.

  5. Boil the syrup a little longer. Skim the syrup well.

  6. Pour the syrup over the pineapple again.

  7. Repeat the process for three more days. Add new syrup as needed.

Finish and store

  1. Boil the sugar to a great pearl.

  2. Add the pineapple and bring the mixture to a boil. Remove from heat. Skim well.

  3. Place the pineapple in dry pans for storage.

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 + 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

Pineapple
Its firm flesh holds its shape through boiling and long soaking in syrup.
Sugar (in the method)
Builds the syrup that slowly sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it.

The step that matters

Boiling the syrup to thread consistency. Syrup that is too thin dilutes and spoils, while syrup boiled too far becomes hard and sticky. Reaching the correct concentration gives a stable, sweet preserve.

“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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