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Pine-apple Cream

A chilled dessert made with diced pineapple, cream, egg whites, vanilla, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 911 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pine-apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Combine the diced pineapple and syrup with the cream in a bowl.

  2. Whip the cream until it thickens.

  3. Gently fold the whipped cream into the pineapple mixture.

  4. Add the vanilla extract and sugar, mixing well.

Whip the egg whites

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.

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 + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Whipped to add air and body, giving the frozen ice cream a light, creamy texture.
Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks to trap air, adding lightness to the mixture.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
Pineapple
Provides fruit flavour and acidity, with syrup adding extra sweetness and moisture.

The step that matters

Folding the whipped cream into the pineapple mixture. Folding gently preserves the air whipped into the cream. Stirring vigorously would deflate it, making the frozen ice cream dense and less light.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against syrup, cream, vanilla, 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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