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Pineapple Cream Ice

A frozen dessert made from cream, pineapple, lemon juice, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Sweeten the cream or custard to taste.

  2. Let the custard cool.

Flavour and freeze

  1. Add the grated pineapple, lemon juice, and food coloring.

  2. Mix in additional sugar if needed.

  3. Freeze according to your ice cream maker's instructions.

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

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

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

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

  3. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar 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

Cream or custard
Provides fat and richness, giving the ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Grated pineapple
Supplies the main pineapple flavour and some fruit moisture to the base.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavour and balances sweetness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and keeps the frozen ice cream softer by lowering its freezing point.

The step that matters

Let the custard cool. A warm base takes longer to freeze, which allows larger ice crystals to form and makes the texture grainy. Cooling the custard fully before adding the fruit and freezing helps produce a smoother result.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, pineapple, 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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