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Raspberry Shrub

A sweetened vinegar drink made from raspberries, sugar, and vinegar.

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

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 Shrub

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate the raspberries

  1. Place raspberries in a stone jar and cover with vinegar.

  2. Let stand for 24 hours.

Strain the juice

  1. Strain through a colander, mashing the berries well.

  2. Strain again through cheesecloth and measure the juice.

Make the syrup and seal

  1. For every pint of juice, add 1 pound of sugar.

  2. Boil the juice in a preserving kettle for 20 minutes.

  3. Add the sugar and boil for an additional 10 minutes.

  4. Seal in fruit jars or bottles.

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

Raspberries
Provide the fruit flavour, colour and aroma that define the shrub.
Vinegar
Extracts flavour from the berries and gives the drink its sharp, acidic bite.
Sugar
Balances the vinegar's acidity and, once boiled, thickens the syrup for preserving.

“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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