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Raspberry Vinegar

A sweetened raspberry vinegar syrup that thickens when boiled and can be diluted with water for serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Raspberry Vinegar

Why it works: Raspberry and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine raspberry juice, vinegar, and sugar in a pot.

  2. Boil the mixture until it thickens into a syrup.

  3. To serve, mix 2 tablespoons of the syrup with ½ cup of water.

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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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.

  1. Raspberry + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. 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

Sugar
Provides sweetness and, as it dissolves and thickens, body to the syrup.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that balances the sweetness and sharpens the raspberry flavour.
Raspberry juice
Supplies the main fruit flavour and most of the liquid that reduces into the syrup.

The step that matters

Boiling until it thickens. Boiling evaporates water so the sugar concentrates and the mixture thickens into a syrup. Stopping too early leaves it thin, while overcooking can turn the sugar too dark or sticky.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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