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Canned Pineapple

A preserved pineapple dish made by canning sliced pineapple in a sugar syrup.

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 ↓

Canned Pineapple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the syrup

  1. Cut the pineapple into ½-inch thick slices.

  2. In a pot, combine 2.5 pounds of sugar and nearly 3 pints of water to make syrup.

  3. Boil the syrup for 5 minutes, skimming or straining if necessary.

Pack and seal

  1. Add the pineapple slices to the syrup and bring to a boil.

  2. Prepare hot cans, fill them with the hot fruit and syrup, and seal immediately.

  3. As the cans cool, tighten the lids to ensure a proper seal.

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
Forms the fruit itself, supplying the main texture and flavor of the finished product.
White sugar
Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the fruit's flavor and texture in the sealed cans.

The step that matters

Sealing the hot cans. Filling the cans with hot fruit and syrup and sealing them immediately drives air out and creates a vacuum as they cool. A proper seal keeps the contents safe and stable during storage, so the lids must be checked as the cans cool.

“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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