Name: Pineapple Fritters
Ingredients: Slices of pineapple; White wine or liquor; Sugar; Batter for frying

Why it works: Pineapple and white wine work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 45 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Fritters

Ingredients

Slices of pineapple
White wine or liquor
Sugar
Batter for frying

Directions

Soak the pineapple slices in white wine or liquor with a little sugar for 1 hour.
Fry the soaked pineapple slices in batter, similar to how you would fry apple fritters.

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 + white winetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together45 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,841 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
White wine + sugartop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,586 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).