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Pineapple Drink

A chilled pineapple and ginger infusion sweetened with brown and white sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and ginger work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 559 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Pineapple Drink

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the rinds and eyes from the pineapple.

  2. Combine the pineapple with 1 quart of cold water in a jar.

  3. Add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar and 1 teaspoon of ginger.

  4. Cover the jar and let it sit for 24 hours.

Strain and serve

  1. Strain the juice into a bottle.

  2. Add a lump of white sugar to the juice.

  3. Keep the drink cool and consume within three days.

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 + gingertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together559 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavor and the juice that forms the drink.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and a molasses-like depth to the steeped liquid.
Ginger
Contributes a warm, aromatic spice flavor as it steeps in the water.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, ginger. 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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