Name: Pineapple Sandwiches
Ingredients: bread; pineapple; powdered sugar

Why it works: Bread and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 69 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pineapple Sandwiches

Ingredients

bread
pineapple
powdered sugar

Directions

Toast the bread until golden brown.
Slice the pineapple thinly and cut into shapes that match the bread.
Sprinkle powdered sugar over the pineapple slices.
Assemble the sandwich by placing the pineapple between two slices of bread.
Cut the sandwich into desired shapes if not already done.

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.

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.

Bread + pineappletop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together69 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,841 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,638 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).