Name: Raspberry Water
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon raspberry jelly; ¼ cup cold water; 1 teaspoon currant jelly

Why it works: Raspberry and currant work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 366 recipes. Both carry ethyl benzoate, which smells fruity, sweet. The science ↓

Raspberry Water

Ingredients

1 tablespoon raspberry jelly
¼ cup cold water
1 teaspoon currant jelly

Directions

Put raspberry jelly into a goblet.
Add cold water and let it dissolve.
If using only raspberry jelly, add currant jelly for balance.

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 + curranttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together366 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberry jelly: Provides the main fruit flavor and sweetness in the drink.
Currant jelly: Adds tartness that balances the sweetness of the raspberry jelly.

“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.