Name: Preserved Pineapple
Ingredients: 1 cup water; 1 pint pineapple, peeled, sliced, and cored

Preserved Pineapple

Ingredients

1 cup water
1 pint pineapple, peeled, sliced, and cored

Directions

Prepare

Boil the water in a saucepan until clear.
Add the pineapple and cook for 15 minutes.

Preserve

Pour the mixture into glass jars.
Once cooled, seal the jars with thick brown paper to exclude light.

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple: Provides the fruit that is cooked and preserved, becoming soft and sweet as it simmers.
Water: Forms the liquid in which the pineapple cooks and is preserved.

“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.