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Pineapple Pudding

A baked pineapple pudding made with grated pineapple, sugar, butter, eggs, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Pineapple Pudding

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pineapple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Cream the butter and sugar until very light.

  2. Add the egg yolks and beat well.

  3. Stir in the grated pineapple and bread crumbs.

  4. Fold in the beaten egg whites until combined.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a pie plate lined with pastry.

  2. Bake until set and let cool 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.

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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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  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. Pineapple + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together69 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

Sugar
Adds sweetness and, when creamed with butter, traps air for a lighter texture.
Butter
Adds richness and, creamed with sugar, holds air bubbles that give a tender crumb.
Eggs
Yolks add richness and set the custard; beaten whites add lift when folded in.
Grated pineapple
Adds moisture, tangy fruit flavor and sweetness to the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the filling body so it sets softly rather than runny.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites until combined. Beaten whites hold air that gives the pudding lift. Folding gently keeps that air in; overmixing deflates the whites and leaves a denser, heavier pudding.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

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