Name: Uncooked Canned Pine-apple
Ingredients: 1 lb fresh pineapple; 1½ lbs granulated sugar

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 ↓

Uncooked Canned Pine-apple

Ingredients

1 lb fresh pineapple
1½ lbs granulated sugar

Directions

Prepare the fruit

Pare and grate the pineapple.
Add 1½ lbs of granulated sugar to the grated pineapple.
Stir until the sugar is dissolved.

Can and store

Pour the mixture into cans and seal.
Store in a cool place; it will keep indefinitely.

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

Fresh pineapple: Supplies the main fruit flavor and most of the bulk of the preserve.
Granulated sugar: Sweetens the fruit and binds water, helping the preserve keep longer.

“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.