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Pineapple Pudding

A baked dessert of layered sponge cake or bread with pineapple, custard, and sugar, served with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pineapple Pudding

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pineapple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the dish

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

  2. Butter a baking dish.

Layer

  1. Layer slices of sponge cake or bread in the bottom of the dish.

  2. Add a layer of pineapple slices and sprinkle with sugar.

  3. Repeat the layers, finishing with a layer of cake on top.

  4. Pour cold custard over the top or wet it with a mixture of wine and water.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake slowly for two hours.

  2. Serve with sugar and 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.

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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  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 + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Sponge cake or bread
Forms the soft base and layers that soak up the pineapple juices and custard.
Pineapple
Adds fruity acidity and moisture that flavour and soften the layers as they bake.
Cold custard or wine and water mixture
Moistens the cake and bread so they bake into a tender, sliceable pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and balances the tartness of the pineapple.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, sugar, wine, 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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