[Sca-cooks] OOP?: When did ham become associated with pineapple?

[Terry Decker]

The association of baked ham and pineapple probably got started after the 
pineapple arrived in Hawaii and became part of the luau.

Just how and when the pineapple got to Hawaii is an open question; a Spanish 
wreck around 1527 (unlikely), Captain Cook (possible), the Spanish advisor 
to the Hawaiian King (1813), etc., etc., etc.  John Kidwell (IIRC) founded 
the first pineapple plantation in 1880 and the first recorded export of 
pineapples to the mainland was in 1895.

I suspect (but have not been able to verify) that the recipe for ham with 
pineapple appeared in a Dole cookbook in 1925. According to one source, the 
first published recipe for pineapple upside-down cake appears in this 
cookbook, but it was only one of 2,500 pineapple upside-down cake recipes 
submitted.

Bear


> So -- like the subject line sez, any thoughts about *when* pineapple 
> become associated with baking of the ham?
>
> Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe (Mike C. Baker)