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Pineapple Sauce

A sauce made from pineapple, sugar, water, and allspice, simmered until soft.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and allspice work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 120 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyl acetate, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Pineapple Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the rind from the pineapple and cut the fruit into slices.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the pineapple slices, sugar, water, and allspice.

  3. Simmer the mixture until the pineapple is soft.

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 + allspicetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

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

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

  3. Sugar + allspicetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,938 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the fruit base and its sweet, tangy flavor that the sauce is built on.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps thicken the sauce as it simmers.

Swap the allspice

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Peppermintfits about as well
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, 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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