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Fruit Salad in Pineapple

A chilled fruit salad of pineapple, apple, orange, strawberries, and mayonnaise served in pineapple shells on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 530 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fruit Salad in Pineapple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut the pineapple in half lengthwise and remove the core.

  2. Chop the pineapple pulp, apple, and orange.

Assemble and serve

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped fruits with the mayonnaise.

  2. Refill the pineapple shells with the mixture.

  3. Place the pineapple on a bed of lettuce leaves and arrange the strawberries around it.

  4. Serve very cold. Optionally, add nuts or use candied cherries instead of strawberries.

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 + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Pineapple + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Orange + lettucetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together373 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the sweet, juicy fruit and the hollow shells that hold the salad.
Cream mayonnaise
Binds the chopped fruit together and adds creamy richness and moisture.
Strawberries
Add bright sweetness and color as a fresh garnish around the pineapple.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits about as well
  3. Beetrootfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, apple, orange, 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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