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Orange and Pine Apple Cream

A chilled dessert of sliced oranges and pineapple layered with whipped cream, sherry, and orange jelly, garnished with candied fruits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,664 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Orange and Pine Apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel and slice the oranges thinly, removing all the seeds.

  2. Cut up the pineapple.

Layer the dessert

  1. Arrange alternate layers of oranges and pineapple in a dish.

  2. Dust each layer with sugar.

  3. Sprinkle a little sherry or brandy over each layer.

  4. Bring the layers up to a point in the center of the dish.

Finish and decorate

  1. Whip the cream.

  2. Cover the fruit with the whipped cream.

  3. Arrange chopped orange jelly around the base.

  4. Decorate with candied fruits, violets, or pistachios to taste.

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 + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  4. Orange + sherrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together823 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide the main fresh citrus flavour and acidity that balances the sugar.
Pineapple
Adds juicy sweetness and tropical flavour to the layers.
Cream
Whipped, it forms a light, rich topping that moistens and covers the fruit.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit layers and draws out their juices.
Sherry or brandy
Adds aromatic depth and moisture to each fruit layer.

The step that matters

Whip the cream. Cream whips best when cold and stops just short of stiff peaks; overwhipping turns it grainy and it can no longer spread smoothly over the fruit.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Orangethe original

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