Why it works: Raspberry and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,101 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Raspberry Syrup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Pick the raspberries clean and mash them.
Place the mashed raspberries in a pan in a warm place and let them ferment for 2-3 days.
Draw off the juice and filter it through blotting paper.
Make the syrup
In a pot, melt 2 pounds of sugar with the raspberry juice over low heat, skimming off any foam without boiling.
Strain the mixture through a cloth, let it cool, and then bottle it.
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.
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Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,101 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Provides sweetness and body, and helps preserve the syrup once cooled and bottled.
- Raspberry juice
- Supplies the main flavor and liquid base of the syrup.
The step that matters
Melting the sugar over low heat without boiling. Gentle heat dissolves the sugar into the juice without scorching it or driving off flavor. Boiling would also cause foam to form and could thicken or darken the syrup unevenly.
“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.
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