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Pineapple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made by whipping cream with sugar, adding grated pineapple, and freezing with periodic stirring.

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

Prepare the base

  1. Whip the cream to a froth with the powdered sugar using an egg whisk.

  2. Grate the pineapples and mix with the remaining sugar.

  3. Stir the pineapple mixture into the whipped cream.

Freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into a freezer, reserving 1 cup.

  2. When it begins to freeze, beat in the reserved mixture with a strong spoon.

  3. Beat every time the freezer is opened to scrape down the cream from the sides.

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

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

  2. Sugar + pineappletop 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

Cream
Whipped with air, it gives the ice cream a light body and a rich, creamy texture.
Powdered white sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the cream, and it softens the frozen texture.
Pineapples
Provide the main fruit flavor and a bright acidity that balances the sweet cream.

The step that matters

Beat during freezing. Beating as the mixture begins to freeze and each time the freezer is opened breaks up ice crystals as they form. Without this, the ice cream turns coarse and icy instead of smooth.

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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