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Raspberry Vinegar, Superior

A vinegar infused with raspberries and sweetened with powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Vinegar, Superior

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse the raspberries

  1. Place 1 pound of raspberries in a stone jar or large glass bottle.

  2. Pour 1 quart of white wine vinegar over the raspberries and cover tightly.

  3. Let the mixture infuse for 4 days.

  4. Strain the liquid and pour it over another pound of fresh raspberries.

  5. Infuse for another 4 days and repeat the straining process a third time.

  6. After straining, place the fruit in a sieve lined with muslin and let the juice drip for several hours without pressure.

Make the syrup and bottle

  1. In an enamelled pan or clean brass pan, combine the vinegar with 1 pound of powdered sugar for each pint of vinegar.

  2. Boil gently for 5 minutes, skimming off any scum that rises.

  3. Let the vinegar cool overnight, then bottle it and cork lightly.

  4. After 5 days, cork tightly and seal the corks.

  5. Store in a dry, cool place.

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.

  1. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

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

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

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

  3. White wine + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,586 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

Raspberries
Provide the flavour and aroma that the vinegar takes up during repeated infusion.
White wine vinegar
Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour from the fruit and gives the sharp acidity.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharpness of the vinegar and helps preserve the finished liquid.

The step that matters

Boil gently and skim. Boiling gently for only 5 minutes dissolves the sugar and brings the liquid to a stable state. Skimming removes scum that would otherwise spoil the flavour and keeping quality.

“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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