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Canned Pineapple

Canned pineapple is made by boiling pineapple in a sugar syrup and preserving it in hot cans.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Canned Pineapple

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Make syrup by boiling sugar and water for 5 minutes.

  2. Skim or strain if necessary.

Pack and seal

  1. Add the pineapple to the syrup and let it boil briefly.

  2. Prepare hot cans.

  3. Fill them with the mixture.

  4. Seal immediately.

Cool

  1. As the cans cool, tighten the seals if needed.

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. 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

Pineapple
The main fruit, providing the flavor and texture of the finished canned product.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and gives the pineapple its sweet flavor.

The step that matters

Seal immediately. The pineapple and syrup must be hot when the cans are filled and sealed. As the contents cool, they contract and pull a partial vacuum that holds the lid down. A delay lets air in and can leave the seal weak.

“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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