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Pineapple Cream

A frozen dessert made from pineapple, banana, lemon juice, milk, sugar, and thick cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pineapple Cream

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 Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the pineapple and measure it.

  2. Mash the banana until fine.

  3. Extract the juice from the lemons.

Mix and freeze

  1. Mix all ingredients in the order given.

  2. Freeze the mixture as you would for any ice cream.

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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Explore the science

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

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

  4. Pineapple + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 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

Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
Milk
Forms the liquid base and milk solids that give the ice cream its body.
Thick cream
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, creamy mouthfeel.
Banana
Mashed pulp adds sweetness, body and a mellow fruit flavour.
Lemons
Their juice adds acidity that balances the sweetness and brightens the flavour.
Canned pineapple
Supplies the main fruit flavour and some juice to the mixture.

The step that matters

Mix all ingredients in the order given.. Lemon juice is acidic and can curdle or grain milk and cream if it is added carelessly. Following the stated order and combining the ingredients gradually helps keep the base smooth before freezing.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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