Name: Raspberry Syrup
Ingredients: 1 gallon plain syrup; 4 ounces essence raspberry; 1 ounce tincture of tartaric acid; solferino tincture (for coloring)

Why it works: Syrup and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 377 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Raspberry Syrup

Ingredients

1 gallon plain syrup
4 ounces essence raspberry
1 ounce tincture of tartaric acid
solferino tincture (for coloring)

Directions

Combine 1 gallon of plain syrup with 4 ounces of raspberry essence.
Add 1 ounce of tincture of tartaric acid.
Color the mixture with solferino tincture as desired.
Mix well and store in a sealed container.

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.

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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.

Syrup + raspberrytop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together377 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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What each ingredient does

Plain syrup: Provides the sweet base and body of the syrup.
Raspberry essence: Supplies the main raspberry flavor and aroma.
Tincture of tartaric acid: Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness.

“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.