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Pineapple Cream Ice

A chilled dessert made with custard, preserved pineapple, pineapple syrup, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pineapple Cream Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Pass the pineapple through a fine sieve.

  2. Mix the pineapple with the syrup and lemon juice.

Make the custard

  1. Make the custard as directed.

  2. Let the custard cool.

  3. Stir in the pineapple mixture.

Freeze

  1. Freeze in the usual way.

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.

  1. Pineapple + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Pineapple + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Syrup + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Custard
Forms the creamy, rich base that gives the ice its smooth body.
Preserved pineapple
Adds the main fruit flavour and small pieces of texture.
Pineapple syrup
Adds sweetness and concentrated pineapple flavour.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the pineapple flavour and balances sweetness.

The step that matters

Let the custard cool before stirring in the pineapple mixture. A cold base freezes faster, which forms smaller ice crystals and a smoother texture. Adding the pineapple to warm custard slows freezing and can make the finished ice grainy.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, syrup. 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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