Name: Canned Pine- Apple
Ingredients: 16 good-sized pineapples; ½ lb granulated sugar; 7 qts water

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 ↓

Canned Pine- Apple

Ingredients

16 good-sized pineapples
½ lb granulated sugar
7 qts water

Directions

Prepare the syrup and fruit

Pare and cut the pineapples into pieces using a fork.
In a pot, combine sugar and water; boil for 5 minutes.
Add the pineapple pieces and bring to a boil.
Skim out the fruit and half fill each can with it.

Fill and seal the cans

Pour the syrup over the fruit, dividing it equally among the cans.
If cans are not full, add boiling water to fill them.
Seal the cans.

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.

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

Pineapples: Provide the main fruit, supplying flavor, juice and most of the texture.
Granulated sugar: Sweetens the syrup and balances the pineapple's tartness.

“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.