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Pineapple Cream

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pineapple Cream

Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Trim the pineapple, cut it in half, and dice one half.

  2. Pound the other half in a mortar and pass it through a fine sieve.

Make the cream

  1. Whip the cream and add the pineapple juice and diced pineapple.

  2. Dissolve the gelatine in ⅓ cup of pineapple syrup and mix in the sugar.

  3. Once cool, combine with the cream mixture and pour into a decorated mold.

  4. Set the mold on ice to chill.

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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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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Milk + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Not stated in the record; role left out.
Double cream
Whipped to give the dessert a light, rich, creamy texture.
Gelatine
Sets the liquid mixture so the cream holds its shape when chilled.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the pineapple.
Pineapple
Provides the main flavour, plus juice that moistens and scents the cream.

The step that matters

Dissolving the gelatine and combining it with the cream. Gelatine must be fully dissolved and the mixture cooled before it is folded into the whipped cream. If it is too hot, it can deflate the whipped cream; if it is too cool, it can set in lumps and leave a grainy texture.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, cream, 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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