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Frozen Fruit Salad

A chilled fruit salad made with pineapple, cherries, grapes, oranges, Maraschino cherries, and gelatin, served on lettuce with mayo and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Frozen Fruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the pineapple, white cherries, their juices, grapes, orange bits, Maraschino cherries, and gelatine in a large bowl, then mix well until the gelatine is dissolved.

  2. Pack the mixture into pound baking powder cans.

Freeze and serve

  1. Surround the cans with ice and salt, and freeze for 6 to 8 hours.

  2. To serve, slice and place on a lettuce leaf with mayonnaise and whipped cream.

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. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Grape + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the juices so the fruit holds together as a firm, sliceable frozen block.
Grapes
Add juicy bulk and sweetness that freeze into the set fruit mass.

The step that matters

Dissolve the gelatine fully. Gelatine only sets when it is completely dissolved and evenly distributed. Undissolved granules leave soft or gritty spots, so the frozen mixture may not hold together when sliced.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Mangofits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against 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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