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Canned Pine-apple

A preserved pineapple mixture sweetened with sugar, canned in jars.

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 ↓

Canned Pine-apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare the pineapple and remove the eyes.

  2. Chop the pineapple finely and weigh it.

Combine

  1. Add an equal weight of sugar to the chopped pineapple and mix thoroughly in a large bowl.

Rest and jar

  1. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.

  2. Fill glass jars with the mixture and seal immediately.

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, juice, acidity and flavor that the finished preserve is made from.
Sugar
Draws water out of the fruit to form a syrup, sweetening the pineapple and helping it keep.

The step that matters

Standing for 24 hours. The sugar needs time to draw juice out of the fruit and dissolve into it, forming a syrup that surrounds the pieces. Letting it stand the full 24 hours before jarring lets the fruit soak fully in that syrup.

“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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