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Pine-apple Filling

A sweet filling made from canned pineapple juice, cornstarch, egg yolk, sugar, and pineapple pulp.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Pine-apple Filling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Thicken the pineapple juice on the stove with cornstarch.

  2. Add the beaten egg yolk and sugar to the hot mixture.

  3. Remove from the stove and stir in half of the remaining pulp.

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).

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 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 juice
Forms the liquid base that the cornstarch thickens into a filling.
Cornstarch
Thickens the hot juice as its starch swells and sets into a smooth gel.
Egg yolk
Enriches the filling and adds body as it thickens with the cooked starch.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the tartness of the pineapple.
Pineapple pulp
Adds fruit texture and fresh pineapple flavor to the thickened filling.

The step that matters

Adding the egg yolk to the hot mixture. Egg yolk can scramble and turn grainy if it meets very hot liquid too quickly. Stirring the mixture constantly while adding the yolk and sugar helps it blend in evenly.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar. 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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