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Pineapple and Nuts

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 428 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Pineapple and Nuts

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain the canned pineapple chunks and cut them into smaller pieces.

  2. If needed, sweeten the pineapple to taste.

  3. Mix the sweetened pineapple with coarsely chopped almonds.

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 + almondtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together428 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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