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Canned Cold Pineapple

A preserved pineapple dish made by layering pineapple and sugar, then canning the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sherry work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 228 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Canned Cold Pineapple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the pineapple into small slices.

  2. Layer the pineapple and sugar in a stone crock and let it sit overnight in a dark place.

Jar and store

  1. The next day, fill glass jars with the pineapple and pour over the juice that has been drawn out overnight.

  2. Seal the jars airtight and store them in a dark place.

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 + sherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + sherrytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,141 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the fruit that is preserved, with its juice drawn out by the sugar.
Sugar
Draws juice out of the pineapple and helps preserve the fruit through sweetness.

The step that matters

Layering the pineapple with sugar overnight. Sugar must cover the fruit so it can draw out enough juice to form a syrup. Sugar pulls water out of the fruit by osmosis, and this syrup helps keep the pineapple from spoiling in storage.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Pineapplethe original
  4. Applefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sherry. 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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