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Frozen Pineapple Pie

"This is a good recipe to make ahead for company on hot, summer days. You may use lowfat or fat-free ingredients if you like."

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Why it works: Condensed milk and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 52 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

2 - 9 inch pies
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze out all of its juice into a large bowl, removing any seeds.

  2. Add the sweetened condensed milk and the crushed pineapple with its juice to the lemon juice and stir until evenly combined.

  3. Gently fold the thawed whipped topping into the pineapple mixture until no streaks remain, keeping it light and airy.

  4. Divide the filling evenly between the two prepared graham cracker crusts, spreading the top of each pie smooth with a spatula.

  5. Cover each pie loosely and freeze until firm, at least 6 hours or overnight.

  6. Let the pies stand at room temperature for about 10 minutes before cutting so the slices are easier to serve.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Condensed milk + pineappletop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lemon + pineappletop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,962 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + condensed milktop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together211 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Bananabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against condensed milk, pineapple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).