Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Pineapple Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pare and grate the pineapple, then sprinkle sugar over it.
Make the ice cream
Freeze 3 pints of heavy cream with 1 pound of powdered sugar.
When the cream is partly frozen, add the pineapple mixture, either as is or pressed through a fine sieve.
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.
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together4,841 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,574 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
- Pineapple
- Provides the fruit flavor and acidity that brightens the sweet cream.
- Powdered sugar
- Sweetens the cream and softens the texture by lowering the freezing point.
- Heavy cream
- Supplies fat that gives the ice cream its rich, smooth body.
The step that matters
Adding the pineapple to partly frozen cream. Adding the fruit only after the cream is partly frozen keeps ice crystals small and the texture smooth. Pressing the pineapple through a fine sieve removes fibers that could otherwise make the ice cream gritty or watery.
Swap the pineapple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream):
- Vanillafits better
- Strawberryfits better
- Raspberryfits better
- Pineapplethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, 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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