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Pineapple Points

A simple pineapple dish cut into pointed sections and served with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Pineapple Points

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the pineapple into pointed sections by slicing around each little pentagon of the husk toward the center.

  2. Arrange the pointed sections in a circle on small plates with the points facing inward.

  3. Place a heaping tablespoon of pulverized sugar in the center of the dish.

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
Provides the sweet, juicy fruit that forms the body of the dish.
Pulverized sugar
Adds sweetness and a fine dusting for the centre of the dish.

The step that matters

Cutting the pointed sections. The pineapple must be thoroughly chilled so the flesh holds its shape and the cuts stay clean. Slicing toward the centre along each pentagon of the husk gives neat points rather than ragged wedges.

“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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