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Pine-apple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from cream, pineapple, sugar, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Pine-apple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream base

  1. Combine 1 pint of cream and ½ pound of sugar over medium heat.

  2. Stir until the sugar dissolves.

  3. Remove from heat.

  4. Let cool.

  5. Add the remaining pint of cream to the cooled mixture.

  6. Freeze according to ice cream freezing instructions.

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Peel the pineapple.

  2. Remove the eyes and core.

  3. Grate the flesh.

  4. Mix the grated pineapple with the remaining ½ pound of sugar until dissolved.

  5. Stir the lemon juice into the pineapple mixture.

Combine and finish

  1. Add the mixture to the frozen cream.

  2. Beat thoroughly.

  3. Finish freezing.

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. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cream
Provides fat and richness, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer and scoopable.
Pineapple
Supplies the main fruit flavor and adds moisture to the mixture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavor and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Beat thoroughly. Beating the mixture well after combining the pineapple with the frozen cream breaks up ice crystals and distributes the fruit evenly, producing a smoother texture. Under-beating can leave a coarse, icy result.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, pineapple, 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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