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Canned Pineapples

A method for preserving fresh pineapples by canning them in a sugar syrup.

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 ↓

Canned Pineapples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Pare the pineapples, removing eyes, discolored parts, and the core if desired.

  2. Slice the fruit using a slaw cutter.

Make the syrup and seal

  1. In a pot, make a syrup by combining the sugar with water and bringing it to a boil.

  2. Add the sliced fruit to the syrup, let it boil, and seal immediately.

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

Pineapples
Provide the fruit that is sliced, cooked in syrup, and sealed in the jars.
Granulated sugar
Makes the syrup that sweetens the fruit and helps preserve it in the jar.

The step that matters

Seal immediately after adding the fruit to the boiling syrup. Sealing promptly while the fruit and syrup are hot helps create a vacuum seal and limits contamination, which keeps the canned pineapple safe to store.

“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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