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Pine Apple Pie

A baked pie with pineapple, sugar, butter, cream, milk, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Pine Apple Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Beat the butter and sugar with the egg yolks until very light.

  3. Add the cream, milk, and grated pineapple to the mixture.

Fold and bake

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

  2. Fold the beaten egg whites into the pineapple mixture.

  3. Pour the mixture into a pie crust and bake until set.

Serve

  1. Optionally, reserve 2 egg whites for meringue or use all 4 for the pie and serve with whipped cream.

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.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Pineapple + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Pineapple + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,134 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Yolks enrich and help set the filling, while whipped whites trap air for lift.
Pineapple
Provides moisture and tart, fruity flavor.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and softens its texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, making the filling smoother.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness to the filling.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Whipped whites hold air that gives the pie lift. Stirring them in vigorously knocks out that air, leaving a denser, flatter filling.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, cream, milk, egg. 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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