Name: Pine- Apple Water Ice
Ingredients: 1 lb pineapple, peeled and sliced; ½ pint spring water; 1 pint syrup; juice of 1 lemon

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 ↓

Pine- Apple Water Ice

Ingredients

1 lb pineapple, peeled and sliced
½ pint spring water
1 pint syrup
juice of 1 lemon

Directions

Pound the pineapple into a pulp.
Rub the pulp through a strainer.
Wash the dregs with ½ pint of spring water.
Mix the strained pineapple pulp with 1 pint of syrup and the juice of 1 lemon.

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.

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).
Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,235 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).