Name: Raspberry Wine
Ingredients: 3 pounds raisins; 2 gallons spring water; 6 quarts raspberries; 2 pounds loaf sugar; 1 pound loaf sugar (for bottling)

Why it works: Raisin and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,481 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the liquid

Wash, clean, and stone the raisins.
Boil the spring water for 30 minutes.
Pour the hot water into a deep stone jar.

Ferment

Add the raisins and raspberries to the jar.
Stir in 2 pounds of loaf sugar and cover the jar.
Set the jar in a cool place and stir twice daily.
After a few days, pass the mixture through a sieve.

Settle and bottle

Transfer the liquid to a close vessel and add 1 pound of loaf sugar.
Let it stand for 24 hours to settle.
Bottle the wine, adding a little more sugar.

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.

Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,481 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

Raisins: Provide sugars and body, helping feed the fermentation.
Raspberries: Supply flavour, aroma and colour to the finished wine.
Loaf sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation and adds sweetness to the wine.

“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.