Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 3 pints white wine vinegar; 1½ pints fresh red raspberries

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

3 pints white wine vinegar
1½ pints fresh red raspberries

Directions

Pour 3 pints of white wine vinegar over 1½ pints of fresh red raspberries in a stone jar or china bowl.
The next day, strain the liquid over an equal quantity of fresh raspberries.

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

White wine vinegar: Acts as the liquid that extracts flavour and colour from the raspberries, and supplies the sharp acidity.
Red raspberries: Provide the fruit aroma, flavour and colour that infuse into the vinegar.

“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.