Name: Pineapple Cream
Ingredients: 6 Brazil nuts; 12 pecans; ½ cup pine nuts; Pineapple juice (as needed); Grape or orange juice (to thin)

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

Grind the Brazil nuts, pecans, and pine nuts until fine.
Add pineapple juice gradually to create a thick paste.
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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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.

Brazil nut + pinetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together22 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Brazil nut + pecanstop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together40 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together709 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).
Brazil nut + nutstop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together30 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
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 smooth mouthfeel.
Pecans: Add fat and richness, contributing to a smooth, creamy texture when ground.
Pine nuts: Add fat and richness, helping the ground nuts bind into a smooth, creamy base.

Swap the grape

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

Coconutfits better
Vanillafits better
Figfits better
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.