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Pineapple in Biscuit Baskets

A chilled pineapple mixture served in biscuit baskets.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 116 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Pineapple in Biscuit Baskets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pare the pineapple and remove all the eyes.

  2. Cut the pineapple into slices.

  3. Shred the sliced pineapple with a fork.

  4. Layer the pineapple in an earthen dish.

  5. Sprinkle sugar over the pineapple until all is used.

  6. Pour ice water over the pineapple mixture.

  7. Set aside in a cool place until ready to serve.

  8. Mix thoroughly and let it stand while preparing the baskets.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fill the baskets with the prepared pineapple.

  2. Use all syrup to saturate the biscuits.

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. Wheat + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Pineapple + wheattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Pineapple + biscuittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. 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
Provides the fruit base and juice that forms the syrup with the sugar.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out juice, creating the syrup.
Shredded wheat biscuits
Serve as the edible baskets that hold and soak up the pineapple syrup.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, wheat, biscuit. 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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