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To Make Raspberry Wine

A fermented beverage made from raspberries, sugar, egg whites, yeast, wine or spirit, and mace.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,329 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

To Make Raspberry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Gather and bruise the ripe raspberries.

  2. Strain the bruised raspberries through a bag into jars.

  3. Boil the juice.

Make the wine

  1. Add 1½ pounds of sugar per gallon.

  2. Add the whites of eggs.

  3. Boil for 15 minutes, skimming off the froth.

  4. Decant the liquid into a cask.

  5. Add yeast to ferment.

  6. After fermentation, add 1 pint of white wine or ½ pint of proof spirit per gallon.

  7. Hang a bag with 1 ounce of bruised mace in the cask.

  8. Store in a cool place for three months before enjoying.

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.

  1. White wine + macetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,329 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sugar + white winetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,586 recipes

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

  4. Egg + white winetop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Sugar + macetop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,096 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries
Provide the fruit flavour and the juice that ferments into the wine.
Lump sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation and sets the wine's sweetness and alcohol level.
Whites of eggs
Bind and lift impurities and froth, which are skimmed off during boiling to clarify the liquid.
Yeast
Converts the sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation.
White wine or proof spirit
Adds alcohol and strength after fermentation, helping preserve the finished wine.

The step that matters

Skimming off the froth while boiling. Egg whites coagulate and carry suspended particles and scum to the surface as the juice boils. Removing that froth clarifies the liquid; leaving it in can make the wine cloudy and give it off flavours.

Swap the mace

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, white wine. 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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