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Pineapple Smothered in Strawberries

A layered fruit dish of pineapple and strawberries sweetened with sugar and served with chilled strawberry juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and strawberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 433 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pineapple Smothered in Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pare and remove the eyes from the pineapple, then tear it into small pieces with a fork.

  2. Pick and wash the strawberries.

Assemble and serve

  1. In a serving dish, create layers starting with strawberries, then pineapple, and repeat, ensuring the top layer is strawberries.

  2. Sprinkle each layer with pulverized sugar.

  3. Serve with a sauce made from strawberry juice, ensuring it is cold before using.

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 + strawberrytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together433 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sugar + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit body and tangy sweetness that contrasts with the strawberries.
Strawberries
Add juicy texture and a fresh, slightly tart aroma to the layers.
Pulverized sugar
Sweetens the layers and draws out some juice from the fruit as it sits.
Strawberry juice
Adds concentrated strawberry flavour and moisture to the serving sauce.

Swap the strawberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Strawberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar. 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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