Name: Raspberry Syrup
Ingredients: 28 ounces raspberry stock; 1 ounce citric acid solution; simple syrup to fill 1 gallon

Why it works: Raspberry and syrup 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

28 ounces raspberry stock
1 ounce citric acid solution
simple syrup to fill 1 gallon

Directions

Combine 28 ounces of raspberry stock with 1 ounce of citric acid solution.
Add simple syrup until the mixture reaches 1 gallon.

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.

Raspberry + syruptop 20% of all pairs

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Cooked together377 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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What each ingredient does

Raspberry stock: Provides the main raspberry flavor and most of the liquid in the syrup.
Citric acid solution: Adds tartness that balances the sweetness of the syrup.
Simple syrup: Adds sweetness and bulk, bringing the mixture up to the full gallon volume.

“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.