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Rich Raspberry Wine or Brandy

A sweet raspberry wine made by infusing raspberries with sugar and sherry or brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and sherry work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 109 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Rich Raspberry Wine or Brandy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Bruise the ripe raspberries with the back of a spoon.

  2. Strain the raspberries through a flannel bag into a stone jar.

  3. Add 1 pound of powdered sugar for each quart of juice and stir well.

  4. Cover the jar and let it stand for three days, stirring each day.

Finish and bottle

  1. Pour off the clear liquid.

  2. Add 2 quarts of Sherry or 1 quart of Cognac Brandy for each quart of juice.

  3. Bottle the mixture and it will be ready to drink in two weeks.

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. Raspberry + sherrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together109 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Sugar + sherrytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,141 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Powdered sugar
Sweetens the juice and dissolves fully, balancing the tartness of the raspberries.
Raspberry juice
Provides the main flavour and liquid base of the wine.
Sherry or cognac brandy
Adds alcohol and aroma, preserving the drink and rounding its flavour.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sherry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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