Name: Flan of Pineapple
Ingredients: 1 preserved pineapple; ⅓ cup castor sugar; 2 eggs; ½ lb flaky or short crust pastry

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 ↓

Flan of Pineapple

Ingredients

1 preserved pineapple
⅓ cup castor sugar
2 eggs
½ lb flaky or short crust pastry

Directions

Prepare and bake the flan as you would for Flan of Apples.
Cut the pineapple into small dice and remove any specks.
Strain the syrup and place ⅓ cup of it in a saucepan with 2 teaspoons of sugar.
Bring the mixture to a boil.

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.

Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,841 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,075 recipes

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