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Pineapple Salad

A fruit salad of pineapple, grapes, bananas, and mayonnaise dressing.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut off the top of the pineapple and remove the inside, leaving only the shell.

  2. Remove the skin and seeds from the grapes.

  3. Peel the bananas and cut them into small pieces.

  4. Cut the pineapple and grapes into small pieces.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix all the fruit with mayonnaise dressing.

  2. Replace the mixture in the pineapple shell and serve.

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. Grape + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Supplies the juicy, sweet fruit base, and its hollowed shell serves as the bowl.
Bananas
Add sweetness and a soft, creamy texture to the salad.
Grapes
Add sweetness and juiciness, with small pieces adding bite.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and creaminess that coats the fruit and binds it together.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, banana. 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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