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Pineapple Cream

A chilled gelatin dessert made with whipped cream, pineapple puree, diced pineapple, sugar, gelatin, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Pineapple Cream

Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cream base

  1. Whip the cream until stiff.

  2. Gently stir the whipped cream into the pineapple puree.

  3. Add the diced pineapple.

Set and chill

  1. Dissolve the gelatin and sugar in the water.

  2. Add the lemon juice.

  3. Once the mixture is cool, gently stir it into the cream mixture.

  4. Pour into a prepared mold and refrigerate until firm, about 30 to 40 minutes.

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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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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  4. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  5. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Whipped to trap air, giving the dessert a light, airy texture.
Leaf gelatine
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable structure as it chills.
Pineapple puree
Provides the main pineapple flavour and moisture in the base.
Caster sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the tartness of the fruit.

The step that matters

Cool the gelatin mixture before folding it in. Gelatin added while still hot can melt the whipped cream and deflate its air bubbles, and it may not set evenly. Letting it cool slightly keeps the foam intact and the texture light.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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