Name: Sliced Pine Apple
Ingredients: 1½ pounds powdered loaf sugar; 1 pound pineapple

Why it works: Sugar and pineapple 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 ↓

Sliced Pine Apple

Ingredients

1½ pounds powdered loaf sugar
1 pound pineapple

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

Cut off the top and stalk of the pineapple.
Pare the rind from the pineapple.
Slice the pineapple and place the slices in an earthen pan, layering with powdered sugar.
Use about 1½ pounds of sugar for 1 pound of pineapple, with a layer of sugar on top.

Macerate

Let the pan sit in a warm place for 2 days.

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.

Sugar + pineappletop 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 fruit that softens and releases its juice as it sits in sugar.
Powdered loaf sugar: Draws moisture out of the fruit and forms a sweet syrup around the slices.

“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.