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Pineapple Sauce, Rich

A sweet pineapple sauce flavored with sherry, rum, lemon, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and rum work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 451 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Sauce, Rich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine grated pineapple, sherry, rum, lemon juice, grated lemon peel, and castor sugar.

  2. Stir the mixture and bring it just to a boil.

  3. Serve hot or cold, especially with blancmange, cereal cream, or custard pudding.

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. Pineapple + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Sherry + rumtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + sherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  5. Rum + sugartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and body of the sauce.
Castor sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the sharpness of the lemon and fruit.
Sherry
Adds a fragrant, mellow aroma and depth of flavour.
Rum
Contributes aroma and warmth that complements the pineapple.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and freshness of the pineapple.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sherry, rum, sugar. 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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