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Pineapple Gelatine

A chilled gelatin dessert made with pineapple, whipped cream, eggs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream 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 ↓

Pineapple Gelatine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gelatine

  1. Soak the gelatine in ½ cup of water.

  2. Beat the yolks of 2 eggs with 4 tablespoons of sugar until light.

  3. Heat the soaked gelatine briefly on the stove to dissolve it, then add to the egg mixture.

Combine and set

  1. Fold in 1 pint of whipped cream and 1 can of grated pineapple.

  2. Gently fold in the whipped egg whites.

  3. Pour into a mold and refrigerate until firm.

Decorate and serve

  1. Decorate with Maraschino cherries before serving.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  4. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

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

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the liquid mixture into a firm, sliceable structure as it cools.
Egg yolks
Enrich the base and add richness and body to the mixture.
Whipped cream
Adds airy lightness and a creamy, moist texture.
Egg whites
Whipped foam lightens the mixture and adds volume.
Grated pineapple
Adds fruit flavour, sweetness and moisture to the set dessert.

The step that matters

Heat the soaked gelatine briefly to dissolve it. Gelatine only sets when fully dissolved. Overheating or boiling can weaken its setting power, while undissolved granules leave gritty or uneven patches in the finished dessert.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, cream. 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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