Name: To Prepare Pine-apple for Table
Ingredients: 1 ripe pineapple; powdered sugar

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 ↓

To Prepare Pine-apple for Table

Ingredients

1 ripe pineapple
powdered sugar

Directions

Prepare

Pare the pineapple from the top down and remove the eyes.
Hold the top in your left hand and scoop the fruit from the core in 2-inch square pieces using a fork in your right hand.

Serve

Place the pieces in a glass dish and sift powdered sugar over them.
Refrigerate in the ice box until needed.

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.

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

Pineapple: Provides the fruit itself, the main body and flavour of the dish.
Powdered sugar: Adds sweetness and dissolves slightly in the pineapple's juices to coat the fruit.

“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.