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Pineapple Fritters

Fried pineapple slices coated in a flour batter, served with a sweet Curacao‑infused sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Pineapple Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and fry

  1. Cut pineapple into thin small sections.

  2. Dip each section in batter made from flour and water.

  3. Fry until golden brown.

Make the syrup and serve

  1. Boil pineapple juice with sugar.

  2. Add Curacao just before serving.

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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

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

  3. Pineapple + flourtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour
Forms the batter coating that sets and browns into a crisp outer shell when fried.
Pineapple
Provides the main fruit body, with juice that sweetens and flavours the syrup.
Sugar
Sweetens the pineapple juice and thickens it into a syrup.
Curacao
Adds a citrus aroma and flavour to the syrup just before serving.

The step that matters

Frying the battered pineapple until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to set the batter quickly. If it is too cool, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy and soggy instead of crisp, and the fruit can overcook before the outside browns.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, 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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