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Raspberry Jelly

A preserve made by boiling raspberry wine with sugar until it sets.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and wine work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Reduce and sweeten

  1. Boil the raspberry wine until it reduces to one third of its original quantity.

  2. Add sugar to taste, about 1 cup for red raspberries and ¾ cup for black raspberries.

  3. Boil for an additional 20 minutes.

Jar and set

  1. Pour into glass pint jars and seal.

  2. If the consistency is not firm enough, place in sunlight for 1-2 days.

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.

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 + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Wine + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9,581 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

Raspberry wine
Provides the main liquid and raspberry flavour, and is concentrated by boiling into the jelly.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the reduced liquid thicken into a jelly.

The step that matters

Reducing the wine to one third. Boiling off water concentrates the fruit flavour and sugar, which is what allows the liquid to thicken. If it is under-reduced, the jelly may stay runny even after cooling.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, 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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