Name: Pine Apple Fbosting
Ingredients: ½ cup grated fresh pineapple; confectioner's sugar (to taste)

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 ↓

Pine Apple Fbosting

Ingredients

½ cup grated fresh pineapple
confectioner's sugar (to taste)

Directions

Grate the fresh pineapple. Add enough confectioner's sugar to the pineapple to make a stiff frosting.

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.

Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs

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Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Fresh pineapple: Supplies the fruit flavour and moisture that make up the frosting's base.
Confectioner's sugar: Sweetens the frosting and thickens the pineapple into a stiff, spreadable texture.

“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.