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Pine-apple Sorbet

A frozen dessert made with lemon water ice, pineapple syrup, brandy, and finely cut pineapple.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and brandy work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 298 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Pine-apple Sorbet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sorbet

  1. Add the brandy and pineapple syrup to the lemon water ice.

  2. Partially freeze the mixture.

  3. Stir in the finely cut pineapple and freeze until thick and creamy.

Serve

  1. Serve in ice cups.

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 + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together298 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Lemon + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Syrup + brandytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together561 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Lemon water ice
Forms the frozen base and provides the sorbet's tart, refreshing acidity.
Pineapple syrup
Adds sweetness and pineapple flavor while lowering the freezing point for a softer texture.
Brandy
Adds aroma and lowers the freezing point, keeping the sorbet softer and scoopable.
Finely cut pineapple
Adds fruit flavor and small pieces of texture throughout the sorbet.

The step that matters

Partially freeze the mixture. Freezing it only partway creates a slushy state so the pineapple mixes in evenly. If it freezes solid first, the fruit stays unevenly distributed and the texture becomes icy.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, syrup, brandy):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, syrup, brandy. 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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