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Pineapple Marmalade

A preserved pineapple spread made by cooking pineapple with its juice and sugar.

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 Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the pineapple and remove the eyes.

  2. Grate the fruit or chop it very finely.

Cook

  1. Cook the pineapple in its own juice with minimal water until it can be easily pierced with a fork.

  2. Add sugar to taste and cook for one hour.

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
Provides the fruit bulk, natural pectin, and tart flavour that form the marmalade.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and thickens the mixture as it cooks down into a spreadable set.

The step that matters

Cooking the pineapple until tender. Cooking with only minimal water lets the fruit soften and release its own juice, which concentrates into a thick base. Adding sugar too early or too much water can prolong cooking and leave the texture loose.

“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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