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Pineapple Cream

A custard-like dessert made from pineapple, sugar, water, isinglass, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Pineapple Cream

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 Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Pour the syrup from the pineapple into an earthenware saucepan with the sugar and water.

  2. Add the isinglass and gently boil for 20 minutes.

Set the pudding

  1. Pour the mixture into a bowl and whisk in the cream until it thickens.

  2. Pour the mixture into a mould to set.

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

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

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

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

  3. Pineapple + creamtop 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

Isinglass
Sets the pudding as it cools, giving it a firm, wobbly body.
Cream
Adds richness and a softer, lighter texture to the set pudding.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the syrup and balances the pineapple's acidity.
Pineapple cubes
Provides the main fruit flavour and syrup for the pudding.

The step that matters

Gently boil the isinglass. Isinglass is a gelatine-like protein that must dissolve fully to set well. Gentle heat dissolves it evenly, while hard boiling can break it down and weaken the final set.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. 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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