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Canned Pine Apple

A preserved pineapple product made by boiling pineapple in a sugar syrup and canning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Canned Pine Apple

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Make a syrup by boiling 2½ pounds of sugar with 3 pints of water for 5 minutes.

  2. Skim or strain the syrup if necessary.

  3. Add the cut pineapple to the syrup.

  4. Let it boil briefly.

Can and seal

  1. Prepare hot cans.

  2. Fill them with the mixture.

  3. Seal immediately.

  4. Tighten the seals as the cans cool.

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

Pineapple
Provides the fruit itself, which is the main substance being preserved in the jars.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit's flavor and texture in the can.

The step that matters

Seal immediately. A hot seal forms as the contents cool and create a vacuum. Delay lets air and microbes in, risking spoilage and failed seals.

“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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