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Pine Apple Sweet

A sweet made from melted butter, sugar, pineapple, and water, set in a mold and served with pineapple‑flavored cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pine Apple Sweet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pineapple sweet

  1. In a pan, melt the butter and sugar together until smooth.

  2. Add the mashed pineapple and stir well.

  3. Add a spoonful or two of water and cook until the mixture is clear.

  4. Pour into a cold water-rinse mold and let it cool completely.

Serve

  1. Carefully turn out onto a glass dish and surround with pineapple-flavored cream.

  2. Decorate with dried fruits or sweets.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Butter + pineappletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,134 recipes

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

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the sweet set smooth and tender.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, when melted and cooked, helps form the set body of the sweet.
Fine flour
Provides structure, helping thicken and hold the shape of the mixture.
Pineapple slices
Supply the main fruit flavor and moisture for the sweet.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth texture to the serving sauce.

The step that matters

Cook until the mixture is clear. Cooking the butter, sugar and water until clear shows the sugar has dissolved fully. Undissolved sugar can crystallize and leave a grainy set once the sweet cools in the mold.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, flour, cream. 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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