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Pine-apple

Dice pineapple, sweeten with sugar, and arrange lady-fingers around the dish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,841 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pine-apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Cut the pineapple into dice.

  2. Saturate the pineapple with sugar.

Assemble

  1. Pile the pineapple loosely in a glass dish.

  2. Arrange a row of lady-fingers around the edge of the dish.

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 + 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

Pineapple
Provides the juicy, sweet-tart fruit that forms the base of the dish.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out its juice, creating a syrup.
Lady-fingers
Adds a light, sponge-like edge that contrasts with the juicy fruit.

The step that matters

Saturate the pineapple with sugar. Sugar draws water out of the fruit by osmosis, dissolving into a syrup that sweetens the pineapple. Too little sugar, or too short a rest, leaves the fruit dry and bland.

“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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