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Pineapple, Preserved

A sweet preserve made by boiling pineapple slices in a sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,841 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pineapple, Preserved

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Choose ripe, sound pineapples. Peel and remove the eyes. Slice into ⅓ inch thick pieces.

Make the syrup and cook

  1. For every pound of fruit, dissolve 1 pound of sugar in ⅓ cup of water. Skim and boil until it forms a clear syrup.

  2. Add the pineapple slices to the syrup and boil gently until they look bright and clear.

Store

  1. Transfer the preserve to jars, cover tightly, and store in a cool, dry place.

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 + sugartop 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

Pineapples
Provide the fruit that is cooked until bright and clear in the syrup.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, with boiling, thickens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Boiling the pineapple in the syrup. Boiling gently keeps the slices intact while the sugar penetrates the fruit. Sugar concentration and heat together preserve the fruit, so the slices should look bright and clear before jarring.

“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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