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Bavaroise of Fine-apple

A chilled pineapple dessert made with sugar, isinglass, cream, and ice, set in a mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Bavaroise of Fine-apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the pineapple and cut it into ½ inch slices.

  2. In a preserving pan, combine the pineapple slices, sugar, isinglass, and water.

Stew and strain

  1. Place the pan over medium heat and stew until tender, stirring well.

  2. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve into a basin and cool it on ice, stirring until it begins to set.

Set and serve

  1. Mix in the whipped cream thoroughly.

  2. Pour the mixture into a mold, close it, and pack it in ice and salt.

  3. After about two hours, dip the mold in warm water, wipe it, and turn the bavaroise onto a serving dish.

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 + 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 mixture as it cools, giving the bavarois its firm, sliceable body.
Whipped cream
Adds lightness and a smooth, creamy texture and richness to the set dessert.
Pineapple
Supplies the main fruit flavor, with its natural sweetness and acidity.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the dessert and balances the acidity of the pineapple.

The step that matters

Adding the cream as the mixture begins to set. Isinglass sets as the mixture cools, so the cream should be stirred in only once the mixture just starts to thicken. Added to a warm, runny liquid, the cream can rise, separate, or fail to stay evenly distributed, leaving a loose or uneven bavarois.

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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