Name: English Pineapple Pie
Ingredients: cooked, shredded pineapple; cinnamon; puff pastry; unwhipped cream

Why it works: Pineapple and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 549 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

English Pineapple Pie

Ingredients

cooked, shredded pineapple
cinnamon
puff pastry
unwhipped cream

Directions

Fill a pie dish with cooked, shredded pineapple flavored with cinnamon.
Top with a layer of puff pastry.
Serve with a tiny pitcher of unwhipped cream.

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.

Pineapple + cinnamontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together549 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,574 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cinnamon + creamtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,510 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).