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Pineapple and Nuts

A simple dish of canned pineapple chunks mixed with coarsely chopped almonds, optionally sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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. Open the can of pineapple chunks and drain the juice.

  2. Cut the pineapple chunks into smaller pieces.

  3. If desired, sweeten the pineapple with sugar.

  4. Mix the pineapple with the 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).

  2. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. 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 chunks
Add juicy moisture, sweetness and a bright, tangy acidity to the mix.
Almonds
Add crunch, a nutty flavour and a contrasting texture to the soft fruit.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, 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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