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Frozen Pineapple Pudding

A chilled dessert made with pineapple juice, egg yolks, grated pineapple, heavy cream, and pineapple slices, set in a mold and frozen.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Frozen Pineapple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Line a mold with slices of canned pineapple.

Make the custard

  1. In a saucepan, combine the pineapple juice and beaten egg yolks, then stir until it begins to thicken.

  2. Remove from heat and beat with a mixer until cool.

  3. Add the grated pineapple and beaten heavy cream, mixing well.

Freeze

  1. Fill the mold with the mixture and pack it in ice and salt for three 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. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 recipes

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

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

Egg yolks
Thicken the mixture as they heat, giving the pudding a rich, custard-like body.
Heavy cream
Adds fat and whipped air, creating a smooth, creamy texture once frozen.
Pineapple juice
Provides the main liquid and pineapple flavor, and sweetness for the base.
Grated pineapple
Adds pineapple flavor and texture throughout the frozen pudding.

The step that matters

Thickening the yolks. Egg yolks set when heated, but if the mixture gets too hot or is stirred too little, they can scramble and turn grainy. Stir gently over moderate heat and stop as soon as it begins to thicken.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, 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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