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Apricot and Pineapple Jam

A preserve made from apricots, pineapple, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 377 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Apricot and Pineapple Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Let the sugar stand on the shredded pineapple overnight.

  2. Peel and pit the apricots.

  3. Mix the apricots and pineapple together well.

Cook

  1. Boil the mixture for 1½ hours.

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. Apricot + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + pineappletop 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

Apricots
Provide the main fruit body, flavor and pectin that helps the jam set.
Sugar
Sweetens the jam, draws out fruit juice, and helps preserve and set the texture.
Pineapple
Adds acidity and tropical flavor that brightens the sweetness of the apricots.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture for 1½ hours. Long boiling concentrates the sugar and fruit until the jam thickens. Too little boiling leaves it runny, while overcooking can scorch the sugar and darken the flavor.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, sugar. 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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