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Pineapple Ice

A frozen pineapple dessert made with gelatin, egg white, sugar, citrus juice, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Pineapple Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a large bowl, combine the pineapple, sugar, orange juice, and lemon juice.

  2. Dissolve the gelatin in hot water and add it to the mixture.

  3. In a separate bowl, beat the egg white until stiff peaks form.

  4. Gently fold the beaten egg white into the pineapple mixture.

  5. Add the water and mix well.

Freeze

  1. Freeze the mixture until firm, stirring occasionally.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Gelatin
Sets the mixture and gives the frozen dessert a firmer, smoother body.
Egg white
Whipped to stiff peaks, it adds airy lightness to the mixture.
Sugar
Sweetens the dish and softens the texture by lowering the freezing point.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavour.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg white. Beaten egg white holds air only if it is folded in gently; overmixing deflates the foam and makes the frozen texture denser.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

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