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To Keep Pine-apples

A method of preserving pineapples by mixing pulp with sugar and sealing in glass jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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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 ↓

To Keep Pine-apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pare and cut out the eyes of the pineapple.

  2. Remove all the pulp from the core using a silver fork.

Make the syrup and pack

  1. Combine the pulp with ½ cup of granulated sugar and stir occasionally until the sugar is dissolved.

  2. Pack the mixture into glass fruit cans and seal the covers tightly.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the fruit flesh and juice that the sugar dissolves into.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out its juice as it dissolves.

The step that matters

Stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Sugar that remains undissolved can leave gritty pockets and uneven sweetness. Stirring occasionally helps the crystals dissolve fully into the pulp's juice before the mixture is sealed.

“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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