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Pine Apple Jelly

A preserved pineapple dessert made with sugar, water, gelatin, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Cut the pineapple into small pieces, reserving a few for decoration.

  2. Pound the remaining pineapple in a mortar.

  3. Soak the gelatin in ½ cup of water.

Make the jelly

  1. Combine the remaining water, sugar, and pineapple in a saucepan.

  2. Boil the mixture gently for 20 minutes.

  3. Add the soaked gelatin and stir until it melts.

  4. Let the mixture cool slightly.

  5. Add the egg whites.

  6. Whisk the mixture until it boils.

  7. Cover the pan.

  8. Let it stand for 20 minutes.

  9. Strain the mixture.

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

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

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 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

Gelatine
Sets the strained liquid into a firm, wobbly jelly as it cools.
Egg whites
Help clarify the liquid, collecting impurities that are then strained out.
Lump sugar
Sweetens the jelly and helps give it body.
Pineapple
Provides the main flavour and aroma of the jelly.

The step that matters

Whisk the mixture until it boils. Egg whites must be whisked into the hot liquid so they coagulate and trap impurities; if the mixture is stirred too little or boiled too hard, the clarification is poor and the jelly comes out cloudy. Standing covered afterward lets the residue settle before straining.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg. 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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