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Macedoinb of Fruit IX Pine- Appi.e Shell

A mixed fruit salad of pineapple, oranges, strawberries, cherries, peaches or apricots, sweetened with lemon juice and powdered sugar, served chilled in a pineapple shell.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Macedoinb of Fruit IX Pine- Appi.e Shell

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Cut off the top of the pineapple and trim the bottom so it stands firm.

  2. Scoop out the pulp, discarding the hard core.

  3. Pare the oranges, divide into sections, and cut into pieces.

  4. Stem the strawberries, pit the cherries, and slice the peaches or apricots.

Mix and chill

  1. Mix the pineapple pulp and other fruits, then add lemon juice and powdered sugar.

  2. Chill the mixture on ice for at least 1 hour.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, fill the chilled pineapple shell with the fruit mixture and garnish with the crown leaves.

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

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

  2. Pineapple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Orange + peachtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together385 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Peach + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Its pulp forms the bulk of the salad and its shell serves as the bowl.
Oranges
Add juicy sweetness and bright citrus flavor to the fruit mixture.
Strawberries
Contribute sweetness, aroma and soft texture to the mixture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and helps keep the cut fruit fresh-tasting.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture on ice for at least 1 hour. Cold slows enzyme activity and softening in cut fruit, and chilling lets the flavors blend and the salad serve crisp rather than watery.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, orange, peach, 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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