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Sliced Pineapple

Thin slices of pineapple dusted 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 ↓

Sliced Pineapple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and macerate

  1. Cut the pineapple into thin slices using a sharp knife.

  2. Sprinkle sugar generously over the slices and let them stand for 1 hour.

Serve

  1. Serve on a dish decorated with flowers and leaves.

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 fruit body and juice that the sugar draws out during standing.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and draws moisture out of the fruit, forming a syrup around the slices.

The step that matters

Letting the slices stand with sugar. Sugar draws juice out of the fruit by osmosis and dissolves into it, creating a syrup. Standing for the full hour lets this happen evenly; cutting the time short leaves the fruit dry and under-sweetened.

“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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