Name: Pineapple Water Ice
Ingredients: ½ pound fresh pineapple; Juice of 1 lemon; ½ pint water; 1 pint clarified syrup

Why it works: Pineapple and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pineapple Water Ice

Ingredients

½ pound fresh pineapple
Juice of 1 lemon
½ pint water
1 pint clarified syrup

Directions

Prepare

Chop the pineapple as finely as possible.
Add the lemon juice, water, and clarified syrup to the chopped pineapple.

Strain and freeze

Strain the mixture and freeze until solid.

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.

Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,964 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together568 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,235 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: Provides the main fruit flavour and body to the ice.
Clarified syrup: Sweetens the ice and softens its texture by lowering the freezing point.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavour.
Water: Forms the liquid base that freezes into ice crystals.