Name: Rhubarb Wine
Ingredients: 1 quart rhubarb juice; 1 quart water; 2 pounds sugar

Why it works: Rhubarb and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,852 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Rhubarb Wine

Ingredients

1 quart rhubarb juice
1 quart water
2 pounds sugar

Directions

Prepare the mixture

Chop the rhubarb plant and drain off the juice.
Add a quart of water and 2 pounds of sugar to each quart of rhubarb juice.

Ferment and bottle

Let the mixture ferment.
Bottle the wine when it is clear.

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.

Rhubarb + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,852 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Rhubarb juice: Provides the main flavor and tartness of the wine.
Sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide.

“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.