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Pine-apple Water Ice

A frozen dessert made from pineapple juice, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Chop and pound the pineapple.

  2. Pass the mixture through a sieve to extract the juice.

  3. Mix the juice with sugar and water to taste.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture until solid, stirring occasionally.

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

Pineapple
Supplies the juice and the fruit flavour that forms the body of the ice.
Sugar
Sweetens the juice and lowers its freezing point so the ice stays softer.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture until solid, stirring occasionally. Stirring breaks up ice crystals as they form, keeping the water ice fine-grained and smooth rather than hard and coarse. Sugar also lowers the freezing point, so the mixture needs longer to set.

“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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