Name: Raspberry Syrup
Ingredients: 1 cup raspberry juice; 1 ½ cups granulated sugar; 2 quarts simple syrup; 1 teaspoon solution of cochineal or carmine solution

Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Raspberry Syrup

Ingredients

1 cup raspberry juice
1 ½ cups granulated sugar
2 quarts simple syrup
1 teaspoon solution of cochineal or carmine solution

Directions

Make the syrup

Dissolve the sugar in the raspberry juice over heat.
Strain the mixture and transfer it to a bottle labeled 'Concentrated Syrup'.

Prepare for fountain use

For fountain use, mix 1 quart of this syrup with 2 quarts of simple syrup and 1 teaspoon of cochineal or carmine solution.

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.

Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,842 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Raspberry + syruptop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together377 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Granulated sugar: Provides sweetness and body to the syrup once dissolved in the juice.
Raspberry juice: Supplies the raspberry flavour and liquid base for the syrup.
Cochineal or carmine solution: Adds the red colour to the finished syrup.