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Pineapple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from heavy cream and pineapple, sweetened with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate the fruit

  1. Slice the pineapples thinly.

  2. Sprinkle powdered sugar between the slices.

  3. Cover the sliced fruit.

  4. Let the fruit stand for 3 hours.

Make the base

  1. Chop the pineapple in the syrup.

  2. Strain the chopped pineapple through a fine sieve or double layer of cheesecloth.

  3. Beat the pineapple syrup gradually into the cream.

Freeze and finish

  1. Freeze the mixture as quickly as possible.

  2. Reserve a few unsugared pineapple pieces.

  3. Cut the reserved pieces into small squares.

  4. Stir the pineapple squares into the cream when it is half frozen.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 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

Heavy cream
Provides fat and body, giving the ice cream a rich, smooth texture.
Pineapples
Supply the main fruit flavor and a bright acidity that cuts the richness of the cream.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice to form syrup, which softens the frozen texture.

The step that matters

Stir the pineapple squares in when the cream is half frozen. If added too early the pieces sink and settle unevenly. If added too late they freeze into hard clumps and do not spread through the ice cream.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, 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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