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 Vinegar for Summer Beverage
Ingredients
Directions
Infuse
Fill a jar with raspberries and cover them with distilled vinegar.
Cork the jar and leave it for three days.
Strain and sweeten
Strain the mixture.
Add 1 pound of sugar for every pint of liquid.
Pour the mixture into a jar.
Cook and bottle
Boil it in a bain-marie for several hours, covering it well with a cloth.
Let it cool.
Bottle and cork it tightly.
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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Vinegar + sugartop 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, aroma and colour of the vinegar.
- Distilled vinegar
- Extracts the raspberry flavour and adds the sharp acidity that defines the finished vinegar.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness that balances the acidity of the vinegar.
The step that matters
Boiling in the bain-marie. Heat the jar gently and keep it covered well with the cloth, so the mixture heats evenly and steam does not drip back into it, which would dilute the flavour.
“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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