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Pineapple Marmalade

A preserve made by cooking shredded pineapple with sugar until clear and amber.

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

  1. Combine the shredded pineapple and granulated sugar in a preserving kettle and mix well.

  2. Let it stand overnight.

  3. In the morning, boil or simmer the mixture slowly for 30 to 45 minutes until it is clear and amber colored.

  4. Pour into small glass jars.

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 base and its acidity, flavour and pectin-bearing pulp that thickens as it cooks.
Granulated sugar
Draws water out of the fruit and, with long cooking, sets the mixture into a thick, glossy spread.

The step that matters

Simmering until clear and amber. Cook slowly and watch the colour. Too little time leaves the marmalade thin and runny, while overcooking can scorch the sugar and make it bitter and dark.

“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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