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Pineapple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from sliced pineapple, powdered sugar, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Pineapple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Slice 2 large ripe pineapples thin.

  2. Scatter 2 pounds powdered sugar between the slices.

  3. Cover and let the fruit stand 3 hours.

  4. Chop the pineapple in the syrup.

  5. Strain through a fine sieve.

Make the ice cream

  1. Beat gradually into a pint of cream.

  2. Freeze rapidly.

  3. Keep a few pieces of pineapple unsugared, cut into square bits, and stir through the cream when half frozen, with 1 pint whipped cream.

  4. Pack and let stand several hours.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

182Calories
1 gProtein
6 gFat
35 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. See the original page.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapples
Provides the main fruit flavor and the juice that becomes the syrup.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice to form a syrup.
Cream
Adds fat, giving the frozen dessert a rich, smooth texture.
Whipped cream
Adds air, making the frozen texture lighter and less dense.

The step that matters

Stir the pineapple bits in when half frozen. If the custard is still liquid, the pineapple pieces sink. If it is frozen solid, they cannot be mixed in evenly. Stirring at half frozen spreads the fruit through the cream while it still holds its shape.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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