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Pineapple Preserves

A sweet preserve made from pineapple and sugar boiled and jarred.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Pineapple Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare, core, and slice the pineapple into small pieces.

  2. Boil the pineapple with the sugar for twenty minutes.

  3. Transfer the mixture into jars and cover with egg papers.

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. 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
Supplies the fruit, flavor, and pieces that soften and set into the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, as the mixture boils, thickens the liquid and helps preserve it.

The step that matters

Boil the pineapple with the sugar for twenty minutes. Boiling evaporates water and concentrates the sugar. Boiling long enough lets the mixture thicken and reach the dense, sugar-rich state that helps it keep. Stopping too early leaves it runny and less stable.

“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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