Name: Raspberry Water
Ingredients: 1 pint raspberry juice; ½ pint strawberry juice; 6 ounces sugar; 1 pint water

Why it works: Raspberry and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 815 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Raspberry Water

Ingredients

1 pint raspberry juice
½ pint strawberry juice
6 ounces sugar
1 pint water

Directions

Combine raspberry juice, strawberry juice, sugar, and water in a large pitcher.
Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved.
Chill in the refrigerator before serving.

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.

Raspberry + strawberrytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together815 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).
Strawberry + sugartop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,060 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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

Raspberry juice: Provides the main fruit flavour and colour of the drink.
Strawberry juice: Adds extra fruity body and flavour alongside the raspberry juice.
Sugar: Sweetens the drink and balances the tartness of the fruit juices.