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Pineapple Pie

A pie made with sliced pineapple, sugar, and sweet cream in a rich pie crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pare and core the pineapple.

  2. Cut the pineapple into small slices.

  3. Sprinkle the pineapple slices with sugar.

  4. Set the dish aside to draw juice.

Make the filling

  1. Bake two pie crusts on perforated pie plates.

  2. Stew the pineapple until soft.

  3. Mash the stewed pineapple.

  4. Let the mash cool.

  5. Whip the sweet cream until fluffy.

  6. Mix the whipped cream with the cooled pineapple.

  7. Fill the baked pie crusts with the pineapple and cream mixture.

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. Sugar + creamtop 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. Pineapple + creamtop 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

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavor and, once stewed and mashed, the bulk of the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the pineapple and draws out its juice before cooking.
Pie crusts
Form the baked shell that holds the filling.
Sweet cream
Whipped to add air and richness, giving the cooled filling a light, creamy texture.

The step that matters

Let the mash cool. Folding whipped cream into warm pineapple would melt and deflate it, so the mash must be fully cool before mixing.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. 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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