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Pine-apple Cream

A chilled dessert made from preserved pineapple, cream, isinglass, 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 ↓

Pine-apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the isinglass

  1. Melt the isinglass in the water and strain it.

  2. Let it cool slightly without setting.

Make the cream

  1. Pound the preserved pineapple and pass it through a sieve.

  2. Mix the pineapple with the cream and whisk for 10 minutes.

  3. If needed, add sugar to taste.

  4. Incorporate the isinglass and mix well.

  5. Optionally, add small pieces of pineapple to the cream.

Mould

  1. Pour the mixture into a copper or tin mold.

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

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

  3. 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

What each ingredient does

Isinglass
Sets the cream into a firm, sliceable structure as it cools.
Cream
Provides richness and a smooth, creamy texture.
Preserved pineapple
Supplies the main pineapple flavour and sweetness, with fruit pulp adding body.

The step that matters

Incorporate the isinglass and mix well. If the isinglass is too hot it can fail to set the cream, and if it has already set in lumps it will not blend smoothly. Letting it cool slightly without setting keeps it liquid enough to disperse evenly through the cream.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, 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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