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Pineapple Souffle

A chilled pineapple dessert made with gelatin, pineapple, orange juice, sugar, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,664 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Souffle

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the gelatine in cold water for 1 hour.

Make the soufflé

  1. In a saucepan, combine the pineapple juice, sugar, and orange juice; bring to a boil.

  2. Remove from heat and let cool.

  3. Add the minced pineapple to the cooled mixture.

  4. Whip the cream and fold it into the mixture.

  5. Pour into a mold and refrigerate until set.

Serve

  1. To serve, turn out the soufflé and surround it with grated pineapple and cherries on top.

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.

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the mixture so the soufflé holds its shape when turned out.
Cream
Adds fat and whipped air to lighten the texture of the soufflé.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the tartness of the fruit juices.
Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and moisture in the soufflé.

The step that matters

Soak the gelatine fully before using it. Gelatine must hydrate completely in cold water so it dissolves evenly when heated. Undissolved granules leave a grainy texture and weak setting, so the soufflé may not hold its shape when turned out.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar, cream. 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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