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Pineapple Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the small sponge cake.

  2. Spread grated pineapple and whipped cream on one slice.

  3. Sift a little sugar over the whipped cream.

  4. Press another slice of cake on top.

  5. Alternatively, use red raspberry jam instead of pineapple.

  6. Serve with ice cream.

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

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

  2. Pineapple + red raspberrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  4. Sugar + red raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

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

Swap the red raspberry

The recipe marks red raspberry as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, cream, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Red raspberrythe original

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

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