Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 2 quarts fresh raspberries; 1 quart vinegar; 2 quarts fresh raspberries; 1 pound loaf sugar

Why it works: Vinegar and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,806 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

2 quarts fresh raspberries
1 quart vinegar
2 quarts fresh raspberries
1 pound loaf sugar

Directions

Infuse

Place 2 quarts of fresh raspberries in a crock and pour 1 quart of vinegar over them.
Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.
Strain the mixture and pour it over another 2 quarts of fresh raspberries.
After another 24 hours, strain again.

Sweeten and bottle

Add 1 pound of loaf sugar for each pint of vinegar.
Set the vessel in a kettle of water and let it boil briskly for 1 hour. Skim off any scum that rises.
Bottle the vinegar when it is cold.

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.

Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,806 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 main fruit flavor and aroma that the vinegar takes up during steeping.
Vinegar: Extracts and preserves the raspberry flavor, giving the drink its sharp acidity.
Loaf sugar: Sweetens the vinegar and balances its acidity.

“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.