Name: Pineapple Sorbet
Ingredients: 1 cup starch; ½ cup lemonade; ½ cup syrup; 1 cup pineapple, chopped; 1 egg white

Why it works: Syrup and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 568 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Sorbet

Ingredients

Directions

Let the starch cool.
Strain the cooled starch with lemonade and syrup.
Add the chopped pineapple.
When nearly frozen, fold in the egg white.

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.

Syrup + pineappletop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together568 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Pineapple + eggtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,075 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Syrup + eggtop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,995 recipes