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Raspberry Acid

A fermented raspberry beverage made with vinegar, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 Acid

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate

  1. Mash the raspberries.

  2. Place them in a stone jar.

  3. Pour the vinegar over the raspberries.

  4. Cover the jar.

  5. Stir daily for 4 to 5 days in a cool place.

Make the syrup

  1. Strain the mixture.

  2. Measure the juice.

  3. Add an equal amount of sugar to the juice.

  4. Boil for 10 to 15 minutes.

  5. Seal the mixture airtight while hot.

Serve

  1. Mix ½ glass of the raspberry acid with ½ glass of water or to taste.

  2. Add shaved ice if desired.

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. 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

Red raspberries
Provide the main flavour and colour, and the fruit juice that becomes the base.
Vinegar
Extracts and preserves the raspberry flavour and adds sharp acidity.
Sugar
Balances the acidity and sweetens the finished syrup.

The step that matters

Sealing the mixture airtight while hot. Hot liquid sealed in clean containers forces out air and limits microbial growth, helping the syrup keep. If it cools open to air, it is more likely to spoil.

“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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