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Pineapple Cream

A chilled dessert made from preserved pineapple, gelatin, cream, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pineapple Cream

Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Pineapple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pineapple base

  1. Pound the contents of the tin of pineapple in a mortar.

  2. Add the sugar and water, then boil in a saucepan for 15 minutes.

  3. Rub the mixture through a sieve.

  4. Dissolve the gelatine in a little milk and mix it with the pineapple.

Finish and set

  1. Whip the cream to a froth and quickly fold in the pineapple mixture.

  2. Pour into a mold and set aside until completely firm.

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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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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Gelatine
Sets the cream so the dessert holds its shape when firm.
Cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture when whipped.
Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and body of the dessert.
Sugar
Sweetens the pineapple mixture and balances its tartness.

The step that matters

Fold the pineapple mixture into the cream quickly. Whipped cream holds air that gives lightness; folding gently and quickly keeps that air from collapsing, so the set dessert stays light rather than dense.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, milk. 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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