Why it works: Sugar and vinegar 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 Vinegar
Ingredients
Directions
Steep and strain
Pick 2 pounds of ripe raspberries and let them steep in strong vinegar for 4 to 5 days.
Strain the mixture without squeezing the raspberries.
Make the syrup
Add 2 pounds of broken and clarified sugar for each quart of liquid.
Simmer gently on a slow fire, stirring to mix the sugar well with the vinegar.
Once it boils, strain through a fine sieve.
When cold, bottle it for use.
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.
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Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked 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 main fruit flavour and aroma that the vinegar draws out during steeping.
- Sugar
- Sweetens the sharp vinegar and thickens the liquid into a syrup.
- Strong vinegar
- Extracts the raspberry flavour and provides the tangy acidity that defines the drink.
The step that matters
Simmer gently while stirring in the sugar. Sugar must dissolve fully into the hot vinegar mixture. Boiling hard or leaving it unstirred can scorch the sugar or leave it grainy, and gentle heat keeps the raspberry aroma from being driven off.
“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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