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Pineapple Preserves

A sweet pineapple preserve made by layering fruit and sugar and allowing it to sit for 24 hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Pineapple Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pare and remove the eyes from the pineapple, then shred it to the core using a silver fork.

Macerate

  1. In a vessel, layer sugar and fruit, starting with a layer of sugar.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 24 hours, stirring frequently and thoroughly.

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

Pineapple
Provides the fruit base and its acidity and aroma for the preserves.
Sugar
Draws moisture out of the fruit and sweetens it, helping form the syrup and preserve it.

The step that matters

Stirring during the 24-hour rest. Sugar must dissolve evenly into the juices released by the fruit. Frequent, thorough stirring spreads the sugar so that pockets of undissolved sugar or unevenly sweetened fruit do not form.

“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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