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Pineapple Jardinere

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Jardinere

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Set the drained pineapple on ice.

  2. Finely dice the banana and add it to the pineapple.

  3. Add the grapefruit pulp and white sugar to the mixture.

  4. Prepare a water syrup and mix it in.

  5. Serve in glasses, topping each with a cherry.

  6. If using sliced pineapple, shred it before adding the other fruits.

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 + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + grapefruittop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Banana + grapefruittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the grapefruit

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Grapefruitthe original

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

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