Name: Frozen Pineapple
Ingredients: 3 large pineapples; 2 pounds white sugar; 1 quart ice water

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 ↓

Frozen Pineapple

Ingredients

3 large pineapples
2 pounds white sugar
1 quart ice water

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

Peel the pineapples and cut them open.
Remove the cores and grate the pineapple flesh.

Mix and freeze

In a bowl, combine the grated pineapple, sugar, and ice water.
Freeze the mixture 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 + 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

Pineapples: Provide the main fruit flavor and most of the liquid that freezes into the dessert.
White sugar: Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the frozen mass softer and less icy.
Ice water: Adds extra moisture and chilling, helping the mixture freeze evenly.

“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.