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Pineapple Creams Served in Glasses

A chilled pineapple cream dessert served in glasses.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Pineapple Creams Served in Glasses

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the flavored milk

  1. Pare the pineapple and cut the rind into pieces.

  2. Boil the rind in the milk until the flavor is extracted, about 30 minutes.

Make the cream

  1. Strain the mixture and add the sugar, cream, and lemon juice.

  2. Pour the mixture into a saucepan and stir over gentle heat until it thickens.

  3. Let it cool, then whisk until frothy and pour into glasses.

Serve

  1. Use the leftover pulp for dessert.

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 + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  4. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 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

Cream
Adds richness and body, and helps the mixture thicken and whip to a light froth.
Milk
Carries the pineapple rind flavor and forms the base of the custard-style mixture.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the dessert and helps balance the tartness of the pineapple.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavor and balances sweetness.

The step that matters

Stirring over gentle heat until it thickens. Milk and cream mixtures can scorch or curdle if overheated. Gentle, steady heat lets the mixture thicken smoothly without sticking to the pan.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, milk, 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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