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Pine-Apple Water Ice

A chilled dessert made from pineapple, lemon juice, syrup, and water, strained and frozen.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pine-Apple Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Peel the pineapple and pound it.

  2. Pass the pineapple through a fine sieve.

Make the water ice

  1. Add the lemon juice, syrup, and a little water.

  2. Strain the mixture and pour it into a freezing pot.

  3. Work the mixture as usual until frozen.

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.

Explore the science

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 + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 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
Provides the main flavour and most of the liquid base of the ice.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and sharpens the pineapple flavour.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer.

The step that matters

Work the mixture until frozen. Stirring during freezing breaks up ice crystals as they form, giving a smooth, fine texture instead of a hard, icy block. Stopping too early or too late changes the texture.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, 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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