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Pine-apple Cream in Shape

A molded pineapple cream dessert made with thick cream, lemon juice, pineapple jam, and isinglass.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 480 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pine-apple Cream in Shape

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Whisk the thick cream and lemon juice in a deep pan until light and frothy.

  2. Rub the pineapple jam through a sieve and mix it into the frothy cream.

  3. Dissolve and strain the isinglass as directed for lemon cream.

  4. Gently stir the dissolved isinglass into the mixture.

  5. When the mixture begins to set, pour it into your mold.

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. Lemon + pinetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Pine + appletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cream + pinetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together123 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Cream + appletop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Thick cream
Whipped into a light foam that gives the mousse its airy, delicate texture.
Pineapple jam
Adds sweetness and pineapple flavour, and its pectin-free sugar content helps the mixture taste rich.
Isinglass
Gelatine-like setting agent that firms the mousse so it holds its shape when chilled.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet jam and cream.

The step that matters

Stirring in the isinglass as it begins to set. Isinglass must be dissolved and strained first, then stirred in gently. Stirring roughly knocks air out of the whipped cream, and pouring after the mixture has set too far leaves lumps and a dense texture instead of a smooth mousse.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, lemon, pine):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, lemon, pine. 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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