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Pineapple Dessert

A chilled pineapple filled with strawberries, grapes, and sweetened pulp, served with decorative leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Pineapple Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

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

  2. Scoop out the pulp, discarding the core.

Make the fruit salad

  1. Mix the pulp with halved strawberries and halved grapes.

  2. Sweeten the mixture to taste and return it to the pineapple shell.

Chill and serve

  1. Chill the filled pineapple on ice.

  2. Decorate with leaves from the crown or grape 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. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flesh and serves as the edible serving shell.
Strawberries
Add sweet-tart flavor and soft juicy texture to the salad.
Grapes
Add juiciness and a crisp bite to the mixed fruit.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, 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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