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Pineappled Strawberries

A fruit preserve made by boiling strawberries with pineapple, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Pineappled Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the strawberries and shredded pineapple in a bowl.

Make the syrup

  1. In a saucepan, boil the sugar and water until it thickens into a syrup.

Cook and seal

  1. Add the fruit to the syrup and boil briskly for 8 minutes.

  2. Pour the mixture into jars and seal.

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

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and bulk of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the preserve and, with boiling, thickens it into a syrup that sets the fruit.
Shredded pineapple
Adds tangy, tropical flavor that brightens the sweetness of the strawberries.

The step that matters

Boil briskly for 8 minutes after adding the fruit. Sugar must be dissolved and the syrup kept at a hard boil so enough water evaporates and the mixture thickens. Too little boiling leaves it runny and less stable in the jars.

“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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