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Pineapple Ice

A frozen pineapple dessert made with pineapple, sugar, water, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Pineapple Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Strain the juice from the pineapple cans into a freezer.

  2. Make a boiling syrup with the sugar and 1 quart of water.

  3. Add large diced pieces of pineapple to the syrup.

  4. Boil for a few minutes.

  5. Strain the flavored syrup into the freezer.

  6. Add the remaining quart of water.

  7. Freeze the mixture.

  8. Sprinkle sugar over the pineapple pieces.

  9. Set them on ice.

Finish and freeze

  1. When the syrup is nearly frozen, add red fruit juice or coloring.

  2. Add the beaten egg whites.

  3. Freeze again.

  4. Top with the pineapple pieces.

  5. Cover.

  6. Let sit until ready to serve.

  7. Mix 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.

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

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

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 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

Egg whites
Whipped to foam, they add air and a light, fluffy texture to the frozen mixture.
Sugar
Dissolved into the syrup, it sweetens the ice cream and keeps it softer when frozen.
Pineapple
Supplies the main fruit flavor, both as juice in the syrup and as diced pieces.

The step that matters

Adding the beaten egg whites. Egg whites must be beaten to a stiff foam and added to a mixture that is only nearly frozen, so they trap air and stay light instead of deflating or turning watery.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg. 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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