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Pine Apple Cream

A chilled dessert of grated pineapple mixed with sugar, lemon juice, and heavy cream, served with pineapple squares.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pine Apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit and sugar

  1. Grate fresh pineapple if using fresh pineapple.

  2. Dissolve sugar in lemon juice over low heat.

Make the cream

  1. Mix dissolved sugar with grated pineapple and heavy cream.

  2. Rub mixture through fine sieve and whisk until smooth.

  3. If using preserved fruit, combine it with cream, pineapple syrup, lemon juice, and clarified sugar.

Serve

  1. Add small squares of fresh pineapple to each serving glass.

  2. Add small squares of preserved pineapple to each serving glass.

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 + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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

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

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

Heavy cream
Provides richness and a smooth, thick texture when whisked.
Loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the acidity of the lemon juice and pineapple.
Fresh pineapple
Supplies the main pineapple flavour and aroma.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Rub mixture through fine sieve and whisk until smooth. Pushing the mixture through a fine sieve removes fibres and pulp, so the cream sets smooth rather than grainy or stringy.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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