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Another Raspberry Tdiegar

A raspberry preserve made by cooking raspberries and sugar, adding vinegar, boiling, straining, and bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cider and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,431 recipes. Both carry 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol, which smells smoky, clove. The science ↓

Another Raspberry Tdiegar

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the jam

  1. In a porcelain kettle, mash the raspberries and sugar together.

  2. Cook the mixture like a jam for 20 minutes.

  3. Stir in ½ cup of cider vinegar for every pound of fruit.

  4. Bring to a boil and then strain the mixture.

Bottle

  1. Once cooled, bottle and cork it.

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. Cider + vinegartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  2. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + cidertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the main fruit flavor and the bulk of the jam.
Sugar
Sweetens the jam and helps it thicken and keep.
Cider vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Cooking the mixture for 20 minutes. As water evaporates, the fruit and sugar concentrate and thicken. Too little cooking leaves the jam runny, while too much can scorch the sugar and make the flavor dull and the texture stiff.

“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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