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Canned Pine- Apple

Canned pineapple is preserved by boiling pineapple slices in a sugar syrup and canning the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and pineapple 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 ↓

Canned Pine- Apple

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Make a syrup by boiling 2 ½ pounds of sugar with 3 pints of water for five minutes.

  2. Skim or strain the syrup.

Pack and seal

  1. Add the sliced pineapple to the syrup and let it boil.

  2. Prepare hot cans, then fill them with the hot fruit and syrup.

  3. Seal the cans 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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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. Sugar + pineappletop 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

Granulated sugar
Sweetens the fruit and forms the syrup that fills the cans.
Pineapple
Supplies the fruit, which is briefly simmered in the syrup and packed into the cans.

The step that matters

Seal the cans immediately. Sealing while the fruit and syrup are still hot lets steam drive out air, so a partial vacuum forms as the cans cool. This helps the seal hold and keeps the contents preserved.

“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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