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Pineapple Sauce

A sweet sauce made from grated pineapple, water, and sugar, optionally thickened with cornstarch.

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

Pineapple Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Grate the pineapple.

  2. Add water and simmer until tender.

  3. Stir in sugar and boil for 5 minutes.

  4. If desired, thicken with a little cornstarch.

Serve

  1. Serve warm.

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.

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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. 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 main fruit flavour and body of the sauce.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the sauce its body as it boils.
Cornstarch
Thickens the sauce when heated with liquid, giving it a smoother texture.

The step that matters

Boil the sugar mixture for 5 minutes. Boiling concentrates the sugar and fruit juices, so the sauce thickens and tastes sweeter. Stirring the sugar in before boiling helps it dissolve evenly so the sauce doesn't turn grainy.

“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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