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Pineapple Preserves

A sweet pineapple preserve made by layering fruit and sugar, boiling the juice, and sealing in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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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 Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pare and slice the pineapples.

  2. For every pound of fruit, add 1 pound of sugar.

  3. Layer pineapple and sugar in jars.

  4. Add another layer of pineapple.

  5. Let it stand overnight.

Make the syrup

  1. Remove the juice from the fruit.

  2. Boil the juice until it thickens.

  3. Pour the thickened juice over the fruit.

  4. Boil for 15 minutes.

  5. Remove the fruit from the syrup to cool.

Jar and seal

  1. Place the fruit in a jar.

  2. Pour the syrup over the fruit.

  3. Seal the jar.

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 + sugartop 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

Pineapples
Supplies the main fruit, flavour and bulk of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out its juice, while helping the preserve keep.

“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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