Name: Pieplant and Pineapple
Ingredients: 6 pineapples; 2 cups pieplant; 4 cups sugar

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 ↓

Pieplant and Pineapple

Ingredients

6 pineapples
2 cups pieplant
4 cups sugar

Directions

Pare, slice, and cook the pineapples until tender.
Cook the pieplant separately.
Combine the cooked pineapples and pieplant in a ratio of 1 cup pineapple to 2 cups pieplant.
Add the sugar and can while hot.
Do not add water while cooking.

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.

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: Provides the main fruit flavor and sweetness, and the bulk of the preserve.
Pieplant: Adds tartness that balances the sweetness of the pineapple and sugar.
Sugar: Sweetens the preserve and helps it thicken and keep as it sets.

“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.