Skip to main content
Breakfast

Pineapple Pancakes

Pancakes made with grated pineapple, sugar, and pineapple juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Grate the pineapple.

  2. Mix the grated pineapple with the sugar.

  3. Let it stand overnight.

  4. In the morning, drain the pineapple.

Make the pancakes

  1. Add 1 cup of it to each cup of pancake batter.

  2. Cook the pancakes as you would ordinary pancakes.

Serve

  1. Serve the pancakes with the pineapple juice.

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.

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 + 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

Pineapple
Adds moisture and fruity flavor to the batter, and its juice is drawn out by the sugar.
Sugar
Sweetens the pineapple and draws out its juice during the overnight standing.
Pancake batter
Forms the base that sets into the body of the pancake when cooked.

The step that matters

Drain the pineapple in the morning. Pineapple left to stand releases a lot of liquid. Adding it undrained would thin the batter, making the pancakes spread and cook unevenly, so draining controls the batter's consistency.

“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.

You might also like

Rice GruelRice Gruel28 recipesPeptoned Milk GruelPeptoned Milk Gruel9 recipes