Name: Pine-apple Drink
Ingredients: 1 small pineapple; 1 pint cold water; sugar to taste

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 Drink

Ingredients

1 small pineapple
1 pint cold water
sugar to taste

Directions

Prepare

Cut the pineapple skin and core into small pieces.
Soak the pieces in a stone jar with cold water for 24 hours.

Finish and rest

Strain the mixture and sweeten it to taste.
Pour the drink into large bottles and let it sit for 3 days before using.

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 + 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: Provides the main flavor and aroma of the drink, with the skin and core steeped in water.
Cold water: Draws flavor out of the pineapple pieces during the long soak without cooking them.

“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.