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Pine-apple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made from pineapple, sugar, lemon juice, cream, and milk.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. If using raw pineapple, cut it into pieces and pound it with sugar.

  2. Add lemon juice to taste, then mix in the cream and a little new milk.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the mixture until solid.

  2. For an alternative, bruise the pineapple in a mortar.

  3. Mix the bruised pineapple with sugar and lemon juice.

  4. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve before freezing.

  5. Add a few slices of preserved pineapple when serving.

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 + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

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

  4. Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  5. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 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 main fruit flavour and body of the ice cream.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
Cream
Adds fat, giving the ice cream a rich, smooth texture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavour.

The step that matters

Strain the mixture through a fine sieve before freezing. Straining removes pineapple fibres and pulp that would otherwise make the frozen ice cream grainy or stringy, giving a smoother texture.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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