Name: Pine-apples
Ingredients: 1 ripe pineapple; sugar to taste; ice

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 ↓

Pine-apples

Ingredients

1 ripe pineapple
sugar to taste
ice

Directions

Prepare

Slice the pineapple using a slaw cutter or a very thin knife.
Cut off the top and use a silver fork to remove all the pulp, leaving the hard core.

Serve

Sweeten the pulp to taste.
Set the sweetened pulp on ice until ready to serve.

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.

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 pulp that makes up the dish, supplying its sweet, acidic flavour.
Sugar: Sweetens the pulp, balancing the fruit's natural acidity.

“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.