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Large Strawberries Stuffed with Little Strips of Pine- Apple

Large strawberries are hollowed, stuffed with pineapple strips, rolled in sugar, and served on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 271 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Large Strawberries Stuffed with Little Strips of Pine- Apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut a cavity in the stem end of each large strawberry with a sharp knife.

  2. Stuff the cavity with strips of pineapple.

  3. Roll the stuffed strawberries in coarse granulated sugar.

Serve

  1. Place 6 or 7 strawberries on a bed of curly lettuce and serve.

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 + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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

  3. Sugar + lettucetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,486 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the juicy, sweet-tart fruit that forms the base of each bite.
Pineapple
Adds tropical sweetness and acidity inside the strawberry cavity.
Coarse granulated sugar
Coats the outside with sweetness and a crunchy, sugary texture.

The step that matters

Cutting the cavity. Cutting too close to the stem end or through the far side can split the strawberry, so the pineapple will not stay inside. A sharp knife makes a clean cut that keeps the shell intact.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar. 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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