Why it works: Pineapple and syrup work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 568 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Pineapple Parfait
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the syrup and eggs as per the angel parfait recipe.
Allow the syrup and eggs to cool.
Stir in 1 cup of grated pineapple into the cooled mixture.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together568 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,075 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Syrup + eggtop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,995 recipes
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the pineapple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (syrup, egg):
- Vanillafits better
- Lemonfits better
- Raisinfits better
- Pineapplethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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