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Pineapples Preserved

This recipe preserves pineapples by boiling, slicing, and layering with sugar, then draining and covering with syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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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 ↓

Pineapples Preserved

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapples

  1. Clean the pineapples without removing the rind or leaves.

  2. Place them whole in a large pot and cover with cold water.

  3. Boil until tender enough to pierce with a straw.

  4. Remove from the pot and drain.

  5. Once cool, remove the leaves and pare off the rind.

  6. Cut into ½‑inch thick round slices, removing the core.

  7. Weigh the slices and use an equal amount of sugar.

Preserve in syrup

  1. Layer sugar and pineapple slices in a deep dish, ending with sugar on top.

  2. Let stand for 24 hours, then drain the slices from the syrup.

  3. Boil and strain the syrup until scum ceases to rise.

  4. Pour the hot syrup over the pineapple slices and cover.

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 + 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

Pineapples
Provide the fruit that is softened by boiling and preserved in sugar syrup.
White sugar
Preserves the fruit and sweetens it, forming the syrup that soaks into the slices.

The step that matters

Boil the syrup until scum ceases to rise. Skimming off the scum as it rises removes impurities from the sugar syrup, leaving it clearer and helping the preserved fruit keep well.

“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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