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Pine Apple Water Ice

A chilled dessert made from pineapple syrup, lemon juice, and water, set in a mold and frozen with ice and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 480 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pine Apple Water Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine the pineapple syrup, lemon juice, and water in a bowl.

  2. Mix well and pour into a mold.

Freeze

  1. Cover the mold with a sheet of paper and pack it in ice and salt.

  2. Let it sit for 1 hour before removing from the 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. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Pine + appletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Apple + syruptop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together742 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

Pineapple syrup
Provides the main sweetness and pineapple flavor.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Packing the mold in ice and salt. Salt lowers the freezing point of the melting ice, making it colder than ice alone. This cold draws heat out of the liquid so it freezes, while the paper cover keeps the surface from drying out or picking up off-flavors.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, syrup, lemon. 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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