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Pineapple Cream

A chilled dessert made with whipped cream, powdered sugar, grated pineapple, and gelatin.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Pineapple Cream

Why it works: Cream and gelatin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,628 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Pineapple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cream

  1. Beat the cream to a froth using an egg beater.

  2. Place the whipped cream in a pan set in a dish of ice.

  3. Sprinkle in the powdered sugar and grated pineapple.

Add the gelatin

  1. Soak the gelatin in cold water for 2 hours.

  2. Pour boiling water over the gelatin.

  3. Strain the gelatin into the cream, stirring from the bottom to mix.

  4. Continue stirring until the mixture begins to thicken, about a few minutes.

Set and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a serving dish.

  2. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

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. Cream + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Sugar + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  4. Pineapple + gelatintop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Sugar + pineappletop 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

Heavy cream
Whipped into a froth to give the dessert its light, airy body.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the cream and dissolves easily into it without graininess.
Grated pineapple
Adds fruity flavour and acidity that brightens the sweet cream.
Gelatin
Sets the whipped cream so it holds its shape when chilled.

The step that matters

Stirring the strained gelatin into the cream. Gelatin must be fully dissolved in hot water and mixed in evenly while the cream is cold. If it cools or clumps before blending, it forms lumps or uneven setting instead of a smooth, uniformly firm cream.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, gelatin. 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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