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Pine-apple Ice Cream

A frozen dessert made by layering sliced pineapple with powdered sugar, then blending with heavy cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Pine-apple Ice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate the pineapple

  1. Slice the pineapples thinly.

  2. Layer the sliced pineapples with powdered sugar.

  3. Cover the fruit.

  4. Let the fruit sit for 3 hours.

  5. Chop the pineapples in the syrup.

  6. Strain the chopped pineapple mixture through a fine sieve or cheesecloth.

Make the ice cream

  1. Gradually beat the strained pineapple mixture into the cream.

  2. Freeze the mixture as quickly as possible.

  3. Reserve a few unsugared pineapple pieces.

  4. Cut the reserved pineapple pieces into small squares.

  5. Stir the pineapple squares into the cream when it is half frozen.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Heavy cream
Provides fat and richness, giving the frozen ice cream a smooth, creamy texture.
Pineapples
Supply the fruit flavor and acidity; sugar draws out their juice to form the syrup.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, dissolving into its juice, helps soften the texture of the frozen dessert.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture as quickly as possible. Fast freezing keeps ice crystals small, so the ice cream stays smooth rather than grainy or icy.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar. 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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