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Pineapple Tart

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 Tart

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the leaves from the pineapple and quarter it without peeling.

  2. Grate the pineapple until you reach the rind and sprinkle plenty of powdered sugar over the grated fruit.

  3. Cover and let it rest for 1 hour.

  4. Place the grated pineapple in a porcelain kettle and steam in its own syrup until perfectly soft.

  5. Prepare empty puff pastry shells or bake in patty pans.

  6. Once the shells are cool, fill them with the grated pineapple and add more sugar.

  7. Create a border of puff pastry around the rim.

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

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