[Sca-cooks] OOP?: When did ham become associated with pineapple?
Mike C. Baker
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Mon Apr 17 13:29:22 PDT 2006
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?
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