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Pine-apple Ice Cream

A custard-based ice cream flavored with pineapple pulp and lemon juice, colored with saffron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and saffron match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 538 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Pine-apple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make 1 quart of cream custard as described on page 763.

  2. Peel and bruise the pineapple, then rub it through a wire sieve.

  3. Alternatively, cut the pineapple and boil it for 10 minutes in ½ cup of water, then rub it through the sieve.

  4. Squeeze the juice from the lemons.

Finish and freeze

  1. Add the fruit pulp and lemon juice to the custard and mix well.

  2. Color with a little saffron coloring.

  3. Freeze as described.

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. Lemon + saffrontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together538 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  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

Cream custard
Forms the rich, smooth, creamy base that the fruit is stirred into.
Pineapple
Supplies the main fruit flavor and pulp that gives the ice cream its body.
Lemons
Their juice adds acidity that brightens the sweet custard and fruit flavor.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, lemon, saffron. 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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