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Pine-apple Cream

A chilled pineapple jam and whipped cream mixture set with isinglass.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 480 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pine-apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the jam

  1. Rub the pineapple jam through a fine sieve into a basin.

Make the cream

  1. In another large basin, combine the heavy cream and lemon juice, then whisk until frothy.

  2. Gently stir the whipped cream into the jam.

  3. Dissolve the isinglass in water as directed for Lemon Cream, then mix it in.

Set and serve

  1. When the mixture begins to set, pour it into a mold.

  2. Once fully set, turn it out onto a 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.

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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. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Pine + appletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Pine + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together123 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple jam
Provides the main pineapple flavour and sweetness, and colours the cream.
Heavy cream
Whipped into foam to give the dessert a light, airy texture.
Isinglass
Gelatine-like setting agent that firms the cream so it holds its shape when turned out.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet pineapple flavour.

The step that matters

Stirring the whipped cream into the jam. Stir gently so the whipped cream keeps its air bubbles. Overmixing deflates the foam, leaving a dense texture after the mixture sets.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

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