Name: Granite D’ Ananas {Pineapple Granite}
Ingredients: 1 ripe pineapple (peeled); 6 oz. castor sugar; 2 lemons; ⅓ cup curaçao liqueur; 1 tablespoon brandy

Why it works: Pineapple and brandy work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 298 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Granite D’ Ananas {Pineapple Granite}

Ingredients

Directions

Cut two slices of the pineapple and mince them coarsely. Keep on ice.
Pound the remaining pineapple in a mortar.
Add about ½ pint of water to the pounded fruit.
Rub the mixture through a sieve.

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.

Pineapple + brandytop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together298 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,964 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together53,532 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,841 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + brandytop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together11,939 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

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

Vanillafits better
Apricotfits better
Figfits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Lemon Cake228 recipes

Lemon Ice147 recipes

Pineapple Sherbet116 recipes

Lemon Sherbet103 recipes

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Granite D’ Ananas {Pineapple Granite}