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Pine Apple Cream

A chilled pineapple gelatin dessert made with pineapple, sugar, cream, syrup, gelatin, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pine Apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pound the pineapple in a mortar.

  2. Add sugar and syrup, then place in a saucepan and boil gently for 20 minutes.

  3. Rub the mixture through a fine wire sieve.

Make the cream

  1. Soak the gelatin in the milk for 20 minutes, then melt it.

  2. Whip the cream until stiff.

  3. Mix the gelatin with the pineapple pulp and quickly add it to the whipped cream.

  4. Pour the mixture into a 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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pineapple + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 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

Cream
Whipped to stiffness, it gives the dessert its light, airy body.
Gelatine
Sets the mixture so it holds its shape when chilled and unmoulded.
Sugar
Sweetens the pineapple and balances its acidity.
Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and pulp for the cream.

The step that matters

Adding the gelatine mixture to the whipped cream. Gelatine begins to set as it cools, so it must be added quickly while still fluid and mixed in promptly. If it cools too much first, it forms lumps and the cream won't set evenly.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, pine, syrup, milk. 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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