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Preserved Pine-apple

A preserved pineapple made by boiling pineapple with sugar and water, then jarred with hot syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Preserved Pine-apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Peel and slice the pineapple, removing the core.

  2. Weigh the pineapple and use an equal weight of sugar.

Make the syrup

  1. Layer the pineapple and sugar in a kettle, adding 1 cup of water for each pound of sugar.

  2. Bring to a boil.

  3. Remove the pineapple.

  4. Spread the pineapple on dishes in the sun.

  5. Boil the syrup for 30 minutes, skimming off any foam.

  6. Return the pineapple to the kettle.

  7. Boil for 15 minutes.

Jar and seal

  1. Pack the pineapple into wide-mouth jars and pour the hot syrup over it.

  2. Cover the jars to retain heat.

  3. Once cool, seal with brandied tissue paper.

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 + 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
Is the fruit preserved, its flesh softened and sweetened by the syrup.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out moisture, forming the preserving syrup.
Water
Dissolves the sugar into a syrup that the fruit cooks and soaks in.

The step that matters

Boil the syrup for 30 minutes, skimming off any foam.. Boiling concentrates the sugar syrup so it preserves the fruit, and skimming removes foam and impurities that could spoil the preserve or cloud the syrup.

“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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