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Pineapple Bavarian Cream

A chilled dessert made with pineapple, sugar, gelatin, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Pineapple Bavarian Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Chop the pineapple into small bits or use grated pineapple from a can.

  2. Boil the pineapple with ½ cup of sugar.

  3. Strain the mixture through a sieve.

Make the cream

  1. Dissolve ½ package of gelatine in the strained mixture.

  2. When it begins to thicken, gently fold in 1 pint of whipped 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.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the fruit flavour and acidity that defines the dessert.
Sugar
Sweetens the pineapple and helps balance its tartness.
Gelatine
Sets the mixture so it holds its shape when chilled.
Whipped cream
Adds lightness and a creamy texture through trapped air and fat.

The step that matters

Fold in the whipped cream when the mixture begins to thicken. If the gelatine mixture is still too warm and liquid, the cream will deflate and separate. If it has set too firmly, the cream will not blend evenly. Folding gently keeps the air in the cream and produces a smooth, light texture.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. 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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