Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 1 pound fresh raspberries; 1 quart white wine vinegar

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

1 pound fresh raspberries
1 quart white wine vinegar

Directions

Place the raspberries in a bowl.
Pour the white wine vinegar over the raspberries.
The next day, strain the liquid over another pound of fresh raspberries.
Repeat the straining process the following day.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Raspberries: Supply the fruit flavor and color that the vinegar picks up as it steeps.
White wine vinegar: Its acidity draws flavor and color out of the fruit and gives the finished vinegar its tartness.

“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.