Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓
Pineapple Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Mrs. Rorer.
Pour a little melted raspberry or strawberry jelly m the bot- tom of a mould and allow it to set : soak \ ounce gelatin in \ cup milk; stir over the fire till thoroughly melted. Whip 1 pint cream, add \ pound sugar and \ pound chopped, preserved pineapple ; stir in the gelatin; when "the raspberry jelly is stifif pour in the cream, and set in cracked ice to harden.
PUDDINGS AND DESSERTS. 175
PINEAPPLK PUDDIXG, NO. I.
Dice 4 ounces fresh or canned pineapple ; melt l^ ounces but- ter in a saucepan, rub in 2 ounces sifted flour, add 1 gill hot milk, and heat for 3 minutes. Remove, add the pineapple and 2 ounces sugar, and one by one beat in the yolks of 2 eggs. Lastly add the stifif whites of the eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Pour into a buttered quart pudding mould, set in the oven in boiling water, and cover with a buttered paper for 35 minutes. Unmould on a hot dish, decorate with slices of fresh pineapple, and serve with any hot sauce desired.
PINEAPPLE PUDDING, NO. 2.
Mrs. Edward Daugherty.jj
Dissolve 4 tablespoons cornstarch in the juice from 1 can pine- apple ; add 2 cups granulated sugar, and 1 quart boiling water ; cook till it looks clear, then add the pineapple, and take from the fire. Serve cold with cream.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Apple | 1 medium (182g) | 95 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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. See the original page.
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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.
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Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together19,187 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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Vanilla + appletop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,501 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together35,032 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Milk + appletop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,104 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the apple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, flour, milk, sugar, vanilla, pine, egg):
- Raisinfits better
- Figfits better
- Coconutfits better
- Applethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against cream, flour, milk, sugar, vanilla, pine, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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