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Pine-Apple Tablets

A candy tablet made by boiling pineapple juice with sugar until it reaches a crack stage.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sugar 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 ↓

Pine-Apple Tablets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Cut the pineapple into slices.

  2. Pound the slices in a mortar to extract the juice through a cloth.

Make and set the tablets

  1. Boil the desired amount of sugar until it reaches a crack stage.

  2. Gradually add the pineapple juice to the boiling sugar.

  3. Once combined and reduced to the right consistency, pour it onto a slab.

  4. Finish as you would for barley-sugar tablets.

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 + sugartop 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
Supplies the juice, giving the tablets their fruity flavour and tartness.
Sugar
Boiled to the crack stage, it sets hard and glassy, forming the tablet's structure.

The step that matters

Boiling the sugar to the crack stage. Sugar must reach the crack stage to set hard. If it is undercooked, the tablets stay sticky, and if it overheats, it can darken and taste bitter. Adding juice too fast can also make the boil bubble over or cool unevenly.

“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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