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Pine Apple Pie

A baked pineapple dessert with sugar, butter, eggs, cream, and optional crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pine Apple Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Peel the pineapple and remove all specks.

  2. Grate the pineapple.

  3. Measure the grated pineapple.

  4. Use the same weight in sugar.

  5. Use half the weight of the pineapple in butter.

  6. Cream the sugar and butter together.

  7. Stir the creamed mixture into the grated pineapple.

  8. Add 5 beaten eggs and 1 cup of cream.

  9. Mix well.

Bake and serve

  1. Line a deep pie dish with pie crust if desired.

  2. Pour the pineapple mixture into the lined dish.

  3. Bake until set and golden brown.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Pineapple + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,134 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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, sweetness, and moisture to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the tartness of the pineapple.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture when creamed with the sugar.
Eggs
Set as they bake, giving the filling its structure.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, soft body to the filling.

The step that matters

Bake until set and golden brown. Eggs set as they heat through, so the filling must be baked until firm. Pineapple contains bromelain, an enzyme that can keep egg proteins from setting, so a thin or underbaked centre may stay runny. Overbaking can make the eggs curdle or weep.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, 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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