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Pineapple Bisque

A frozen dessert made with egg yolks, powdered sugar, whipped cream, shredded pineapple, currant juice, and garnished with grapes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Pineapple Bisque

Ingredients

Directions

Make the bisque

  1. Beat the yolks of the eggs with the powdered sugar until well combined.

  2. Add the whipped cream and stir until very light.

  3. Mix in the shredded pineapple and currant juice until well combined.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the mixture and serve in sherbet glasses.

  2. Garnish the top of each glass with halved grapes.

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 + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Pineapple + curranttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Currant + grapetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Sugar + pineappletop 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

Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the mixture into a smooth, creamy base.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the base and dissolves easily into the beaten yolks.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and air, giving the frozen bisque a light, creamy texture.
Shredded pineapple
Provides fruit flavor and acidity, and moisture for the frozen texture.
Currant juice
Adds tart fruit flavor and acidity to balance the sweetness.

The step that matters

Stir the whipped cream in until very light. Gentle stirring keeps the air in the whipped cream, which keeps the frozen bisque light instead of dense and heavy.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, cream, pineapple, grape):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, cream, pineapple, grape. 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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