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

[Mike C. Baker]

Thanks, Bear -- kinda what I expected.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+kihebard=hotmail.com at ansteorra.org 
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+kihebard=hotmail.com at ansteorra.org] 
> On Behalf Of Terry Decker
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:18 AM
> To: Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP?: When did ham become associated 
> with pineapple?
> 
> 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?