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Pine-apple-water Ice

A frozen mixture of pineapple, lime juice, water, and syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 469 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Pine-apple-water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Bruise the pineapple in a mortar until fine.

Make the mixture

  1. Add the lime juice, water, and syrup to the pineapple.

  2. Pass the mixture through a sieve.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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. Pineapple + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lime + syruptop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavor and body of the ice.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the pineapple and syrup.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and, by lowering the freezing point, keeps the ice softer.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture until solid. Freezing slowly in a shallow layer forms small ice crystals; a mixture left too long in one big block can turn coarse and icy, so the texture depends on how it is frozen.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, syrup. 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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