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Mock Pineapple Preserves

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Mock Pineapple Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare and peel the watermelon, cutting it into fancy shapes if desired.

  2. Cover the watermelon in cold water, add salt, and let it stand in the sun for 24 hours.

  3. Wash and drain the watermelon.

  4. Cover it again in cold water and let it stand in the sun for another 24 hours.

  5. Drain off the water, cover in cold water, and boil until tender.

  6. Dissolve sugar in boiling water and boil for 20 minutes.

  7. Dip out the rinds and drop them in the sugar syrup.

  8. Cook until the rinds are transparent.

  9. Just before canning, add the grated pineapple.

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

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