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Pineapple Marmalade

A preserve made by cooking grated pineapple with sugar until thickened.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Pineapple Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grate the pineapple and measure 1 pint.

  2. Combine the grated pineapple with 1 pound of sugar and let it sit for a few hours.

Cook and jar

  1. Transfer the mixture to a porcelain kettle.

  2. Boil the mixture, stirring and skimming until it thickens.

  3. Once cool, pour the marmalade into glass jars.

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
Provides the fruit base and its tart flavor for the marmalade.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and helps the mixture thicken into a spreadable set when boiled.

The step that matters

Boiling until it thickens. Sugar and fruit pectin set as water evaporates during boiling. Stopping too early leaves a runny marmalade, while cooking too long can make it stiff and sticky.

“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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