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Whole Pine Apple

A whole pineapple is boiled, cooled, and repeatedly soaked in boiling syrup until fully saturated.

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. Trim the pineapple as for sliced pineapple.

  2. Stab the pineapple with a pointed knife or fork in several places.

  3. Place the pineapple in a pan with plenty of water and boil until tender.

  4. Remove the pineapple and plunge it into cold water.

  5. Once cool, drain the pineapple until dry.

Syrup and preserve

  1. Pour boiling syrup over the pineapple.

  2. After a couple of days, pour off the syrup and boil it to a higher degree.

  3. If the pineapple has absorbed syrup, add fresh syrup or sugar.

  4. Repeat this every second or third day until the pineapple is properly impregnated with sugar.

  5. For the final boiling, ensure the syrup is at the 'Large' or 'Great Pearl' stage and cover the pineapple with it.

  6. Skim the syrup well each time to keep the pineapple clear.

  7. Store in dry pans for use.

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 flesh is the base that absorbs the sugar and becomes tender and translucent.
Sugar syrup
Penetrates the fruit over repeated boilings, sweetening and preserving it.

The step that matters

Repeated syrup boiling and the final syrup stage. Sugar must replace the water in the fruit gradually over several days; boiling too hard or too fast, or failing to reach the correct syrup concentration, can leave the pineapple under-impregnated and prone to spoiling.

“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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