Name: Pine Apple Ice Cream
Ingredients: ½ pound pineapple jam; 1½ pints cream

Why it works: Pineapple and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,574 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pine Apple Ice Cream

Ingredients

½ pound pineapple jam
1½ pints cream

Directions

Rub the pineapple jam through a fine sieve into a bowl.
Mix in the cream.
Freeze the mixture according to your ice cream maker's instructions.

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.

Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,574 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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What each ingredient does

Pineapple jam: Provides the main pineapple flavour and sweetness, and its sugar helps keep the ice cream soft.
Cream: Adds fat and richness, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.

“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.