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Pineapple Jelly

A gelatin-based pineapple dessert made with boiling water, cold water, sugar, and canned pineapple.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Pineapple Jelly

Why it works: Gelatin and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,778 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pineapple Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the gelatin in the cold water for 1 hour.

Make and set the jelly

  1. Add the boiling water, sugar, and pineapple reduced to a pulp.

  2. Bring to a boil and strain into a mold.

  3. Set the mold on ice to cool.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, wrap a cloth dipped in hot water around the mold for a few moments to help it slip out easily.

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.

  1. Gelatin + sugartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Gelatin + pineappletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Sugar + pineappletop 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

Gelatin
Sets the liquid into a firm jelly as it cools.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the jelly its body.
Pineapple
Supplies the fruit flavor and pulp for the jelly.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil and strain into a mold. The gelatin must be fully dissolved in hot liquid before it cools, or it can set unevenly. Straining removes the pineapple pulp so the jelly sets smooth and clear.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against gelatin, sugar. 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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