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Pine-apple Tart

A tart filled with stewed pineapple and cream, topped with grated sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Pine-apple Tart

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pare the pineapple, cut it into small pieces, and remove the core.

  2. Mix the pineapple with the sugar.

  3. Let the mixture sit in a covered dish until enough juice is drawn out to stew the fruit.

Make the shells

  1. Make two shells of puff pastry.

  2. Bake the shells in soup plates.

Stew and mash

  1. Stew the pineapple in the sugar and juice until soft.

  2. Mash the stewed pineapple into a marmalade with the back of a spoon.

  3. Let the marmalade cool.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the pineapple with the cream.

  2. Fill the shells with the mixture.

  3. Grate loaf sugar over the top before serving.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and the bulk of the filling.
Powdered white sugar
Sweetens the filling and draws juice out of the pineapple for stewing.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, softening the texture of the filling.
Puff pastry
Forms the crisp, flaky shells that hold the filling.

The step that matters

Stewing the pineapple until soft. Sugar pulls juice from the fruit, and stewing softens its fibres so it mashes into a smooth marmalade rather than staying stringy or raw.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. 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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