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Sliced Pineapples

Sliced pineapple served with powdered sugar, optional wine, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and wine work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 325 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Sliced Pineapples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut off the top and bottom of the pineapple and remove the thick rind.

  2. Slice the pineapple into thin slices.

Macerate

  1. Layer the slices in a dish, alternating with powdered sugar.

  2. Add wine and nutmeg if desired.

  3. Cover the dish and let it stand for 2 to 3 hours.

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

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

  4. Sugar + nutmegtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together23,364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Wine + nutmegtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,356 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Sugar and nutmeg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 23,364 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 flavor and juicy texture of the dish.
Powdered sugar
Draws juice out of the pineapple and sweetens it as it stands.

Swap the nutmeg

The recipe marks nutmeg as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, sugar, wine):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar, wine. 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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