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Pineapple Cream

A nut-based cream thickened with pineapple juice and thinned with grape or orange juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Pineapple Cream

Why it works: Brazil nut and pine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pineapple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the Brazil nuts, pecans, and pine nuts finely.

  2. Add enough pineapple juice to create a thick paste.

  3. Thin the mixture with grape or orange juice to your desired consistency.

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. Brazil nut + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Brazil nut + pecanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Brazil nut + nutstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Pecans + nutstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together121 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Brazil nuts
Provide fat and richness, giving the cream its body and mouthfeel.
Pecans
Add fat and richness, contributing to the cream's smooth, dense texture.
Pine nuts
Add fat and richness, helping the ground nut mixture become creamy and cohesive.
Pineapple juice
Adds moisture and acidity, binding the ground nuts into a thick paste.

The step that matters

Grinding the nuts finely. Finely ground nuts release their oils and bind into a smooth paste. Coarse pieces leave a gritty texture that juice alone cannot smooth out.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (brazil nut, pecans, pine, nuts, pineapple):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against brazil nut, pecans, pine, nuts, pineapple. 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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