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Pineapple Jardiniere

A chilled fruit salad of pineapple, bananas, oranges, and grapes served in a pineapple rind.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Cut the top off the pineapple and reserve it for a cover.

  2. Scoop out the inside of the pineapple.

Make the salad

  1. Combine the pineapple flesh with 2 sliced bananas, 2 peeled and segmented oranges, and the seedless pulp of 1 cup of grapes.

  2. Add sugar to taste and mix well.

  3. Serve the mixture cold in the pineapple rind.

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 + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Banana + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the juicy base and the shell that holds the salad for serving.
Bananas
Add creamy body and soft sweetness to the fruit mixture.
Oranges
Add bright citrus juice and acidity that balances the sweetness.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, banana, grape, sugar. 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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