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Pineapple Ice

A frozen dessert made from pineapple, sugar, water, eggs, lemon juice, flour, and starch.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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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 ↓

Pineapple Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. In a large pot, combine sugar and water, and bring to a boil until the sugar dissolves.

  2. Add the grated pineapple, lemon juice, and grated lemon rind to the mixture.

Add the eggs and freeze

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

  2. Fold the beaten egg whites into the pineapple mixture last.

  3. Mix in the flour and starch until well combined.

  4. Pour the mixture into a suitable container and freeze 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.

  1. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Lemon + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

Eggs
Whipped whites trap air, giving the frozen ice a lighter, more airy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer.
Lemons
Juice adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavor; rind adds aroma.
Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavor and moisture for the ice.

The step that matters

Fold the beaten egg whites into the pineapple mixture last. Stiff whites hold air only if they are folded gently and added at the end. Stirring them vigorously or adding them too early deflates the foam, leaving a denser, less airy ice.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, lemon, flour. 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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