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Pineapple Ice Cream

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Pineapple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pare and remove the eyes from the pineapples.

  2. Grate the pineapples.

  3. Mix the grated pineapple with half the sugar.

  4. Let the mixture stand until the sugar dissolves.

Make the cream base

  1. Heat the remaining sugar with 1 quart of cream.

  2. Let the mixture cool before adding the rest of the cream.

Combine and freeze

  1. Stir in the pineapple mixture along with the juices of the lemons and oranges when the cream is half frozen.

  2. 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.

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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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

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

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

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

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 base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer and scoopable.
Pineapples
Supply the main fruit flavor and acidity, along with moisture that adds body to the mixture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavor and balances the sweetness.
Orange juice
Adds extra fruit acidity and aroma that complements the pineapple.

The step that matters

Stir in the pineapple mixture when the cream is half frozen. If the cream is fully frozen or still liquid, the fruit will not blend evenly. Partly frozen cream holds the pineapple in fine suspension, giving a smooth texture rather than icy or separated pieces.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, lemon, orange. 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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