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Pineapple Shortcake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and biscuit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 46 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Pineapple Shortcake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a rich biscuit crust.

  2. Pour the pineapple mixture between the layers and on top of the crust.

  3. Serve immediately.

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 + biscuittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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