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Pine Apple Syrup

A syrup made from sugar, water, pineapple essence, tartaric acid, cream of tartar and saffron.

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

Pine Apple Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the syrup

  1. Boil sugar, water, and cream of tartar for 1 minute.

  2. Add concentrated essence of pineapple and tartaric acid.

  3. Color the mixture with saffron.

Clarify and finish

  1. Strain the syrup through a fine cloth after removing from heat.

  2. Skim the syrup while boiling to remove any sediment.

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

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

  2. Pineapple + saffrontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saffrontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together243 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked 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

Sugar
Provides the sweetness and the body of the syrup.
Cream of tartar
Helps keep the sugar syrup smooth by discouraging crystallization.
Tartaric acid
Adds tartness that balances the sweetness of the syrup.
Concentrated essence of pineapple
Supplies the pineapple aroma and flavor.

The step that matters

Skim the syrup while boiling. Foam and fine sediment rise or settle during boiling. Skimming them off before straining keeps the syrup clear and free of cloudiness.

Swap the saffron

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Saffronthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, pineapple. 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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