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Pineapple Sherbet

A chilled pineapple-based dessert made with pineapple juice, sweet wine, orange juice, lemon juice, sugar, and shaved ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pineapple Sherbet

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Pineapple Sherbet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine pineapple juice, sweet wine, orange juice, lemon juice, and sugar in a bowl, then stir until the sugar is dissolved.

Chill and serve

  1. Add shaved ice to the mixture and stir well.

  2. Serve immediately.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  4. Pineapple + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple juice
Forms the main liquid base and provides most of the fruity flavour.
Sweet wine
Adds sweetness and a rounded aroma to the blend.
Orange juice
Adds citrus aroma and a gentle acidity to the base.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the sweetness.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and softens the texture of the frozen ice.

The step that matters

Add the shaved ice and stir well. Shaved ice chills the mixture quickly, but as it melts it dilutes the flavour. Stirring well distributes the cold evenly so the sherbet is chilled throughout, and it should be served right away before it thins further.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Blackberryfits about as well
  3. Vanillafits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, orange, lemon, 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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