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Pineapple, Cherry and Strawberry Conserve

A sweet preserve made from pineapple, cherries, strawberries, almonds, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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, Cherry and Strawberry Conserve

Ingredients

Directions

Make the preserve

  1. In a kettle, combine sugar and water. Bring to a boil.

  2. Add pineapple and cherries; boil slowly for 10 minutes, stirring to prevent burning.

  3. Stir in strawberries and boil for another 5 minutes.

  4. Add almonds and boil for an additional 5 minutes.

Seal

  1. Seal in airtight fruit 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 + almondtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together428 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Sugar + almondtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + pineappletop 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

Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and, when boiled, thickens the mixture into a preserve.
Pineapple
Adds tart, tropical flavor and body to the preserve.
Cherries
Contribute sweet-tart flavor and color to the preserve.
Strawberries
Add fruity aroma and bright flavor, cooked in briefly to keep some texture.
Blanched almonds
Add crunch and nutty flavor to the preserve.

The step that matters

Stirring while the fruit boils. Sugar-rich mixtures near the bottom of a kettle can scorch quickly, and burnt sugar gives bitter flavor. Constant stirring spreads heat evenly and keeps the fruit from sticking while it thickens.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, almond. 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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