Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 3 pints red raspberries; 1 pint cider vinegar; 1 pound sugar

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 ↓

Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

3 pints red raspberries
1 pint cider vinegar
1 pound sugar

Directions

Steep and strain

Pour cider vinegar over the raspberries and let stand for 24 hours.
Strain the mixture.

Sweeten, boil and bottle

Add 1 pound of sugar to 1 pint of the juice.
Boil for 30 minutes.
When cold, bottle for use.

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.

Cider + vinegartop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,431 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).
Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

Red raspberries: Provide the main fruit flavor, aroma and color of the vinegar.
Cider vinegar: Extracts the raspberry flavor and adds the sharp acidity that defines the drink.
Sugar: Adds sweetness that balances the sharpness of the vinegar.

“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.