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 Juice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Press out juice from the pineapple and strain through a flannel cloth.
For each measure of juice, add ½ measure of sugar.
Heat and bottle
Bring the mixture to a boil or place it in rapidly boiling water for 1 hour.
Bottle the juice while hot in sterilized containers.
Serve
Use the juice with lemon and water as a cold drink, or in punches, puddings, and sauces.
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.
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Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together4,841 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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What each ingredient does
- Pineapple
- Supplies the juice and the main fruit flavour.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps preserve the juice.
The step that matters
Heating for 1 hour and hot bottling. Sustained heat destroys microorganisms and enzymes that would otherwise spoil the juice. Bottling while hot into sterilized containers helps keep the juice stable during storage.
“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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