Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 2 pounds raspberries; 2 quarts white wine vinegar; 2 pounds fresh raspberries; 1 pint refined sugar

Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

2 pounds raspberries
2 quarts white wine vinegar
2 pounds fresh raspberries
1 pint refined sugar

Directions

Infuse

Combine 2 pounds of raspberries with 2 quarts of white wine vinegar in a large bowl.
The next day, strain the liquid over 2 pounds of fresh raspberries.
Let it stand for one day, then strain it into a stone jar.

Sweeten and bottle

For each pint of liquid, add 1 pint of refined sugar and stir until dissolved.
Place the jar in a saucepan of boiling water and keep it boiling for 1 hour.
Skim the mixture and bottle it once cooled.

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.

White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,776 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,806 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
White wine + sugartop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,586 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 flavour and aroma that the vinegar extracts during steeping.
White wine vinegar: Extracts the raspberry flavour and supplies the sharp acidity that defines the finished drink.
Refined sugar: Sweetens the vinegar and balances its sharpness.

“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.