Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 1 quart ripe raspberries; 1 quart good vinegar; white sugar to taste

Why it works: Vinegar and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,806 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

1 quart ripe raspberries
1 quart good vinegar
white sugar to taste

Directions

Infuse

Place 1 quart of ripe raspberries in a bowl.
Pour 1 quart of vinegar over the raspberries.
Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.
Strain the mixture through a bag.
Pour another quart of fresh raspberries over the strained liquid.
Repeat this process for 3 days.

Sweeten and bottle

After the last batch, sweeten the mixture with white sugar to taste.
Refine and bottle the raspberry vinegar.

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.

Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Ripe raspberries: Provide the main fruit flavor and aroma that the vinegar takes up.
Vinegar: Extracts flavor from the fruit and gives the finished drink its sharp acidity.
White sugar: Balances the sharpness of the vinegar with 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.