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Pine-apple Sorbet

A frozen dessert made with lemon water, pineapple syrup, brandy, and pineapple.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and brandy work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 298 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Pine-apple Sorbet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

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

  2. Partly freeze the mixture.

Finish and freeze

  1. Stir in the finely cut pineapple.

  2. Freeze until it reaches a thick, creamy consistency.

Serve

  1. Serve in ice cups.

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. Pineapple + brandytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together298 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Lemon + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Syrup + brandytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together561 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple syrup
Adds sweetness and pineapple flavor while keeping the sorbet smooth.
Lemon water
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavor.
Brandy
Lowers the freezing point, keeping the sorbet softer and less icy.
Finely cut pineapple
Adds texture and fresh fruit flavor throughout the sorbet.

The step that matters

Stirring in the pineapple after partial freezing. The mixture should be partly frozen and slushy so the finely cut pineapple distributes evenly. If it is frozen solid, the pieces won't mix in, and if it is too liquid, the fruit will sink and the texture will stay loose.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, syrup, brandy. 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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