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Pineapple Feitteks

A fried pineapple slice coated in a sweet batter and dusted with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Pineapple Feitteks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pare and core the pineapple, then slice it into large, even, round slices.

  2. Sprinkle each slice with powdered sugar.

Make the batter

  1. In a deep dish, separate the yolks and whites of the eggs. Add salt to each dish.

  2. To the yolks, add sugar, sweet milk, and enough flour to make a thin batter.

  3. Beat the yolk mixture until smooth, then add baking powder and the stiff-beaten egg whites.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat butter or lard until very hot.

  2. Dip each pineapple slice in the batter.

  3. Fry the slices until golden brown and place on a hot platter.

  4. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pineapple + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Eggs
Yolks enrich the batter and whipped whites lighten it, helping the fritters puff and stay tender.
Flour
Provides structure so the batter coats the pineapple and sets firm when fried.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, helping the fritters rise and become light.
Sweet milk
Thins the batter to a coating consistency and adds moisture and richness.
Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavor and juicy centre beneath the crisp batter.

The step that matters

Frying the slices in very hot fat. If the butter or lard is not very hot, the batter absorbs fat and turns greasy instead of forming a crisp golden crust. Very hot fat sets the batter quickly around the fruit.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

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