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Raspberry Vinegar

A fermented raspberry vinegar made by steeping raspberries in white wine vinegar and sugar, then boiling and bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Raspberry 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

Directions

Steep the raspberries

  1. Pick 1 lb of fresh raspberries.

  2. Pour the vinegar over them.

  3. Let them stand for 4 days, stirring gently each day.

  4. Strain the mixture through muslin without applying pressure.

  5. Pour the liquid over another 1 lb of raspberries.

  6. Let it stand for 4 days.

  7. Pick remaining 1 lb of raspberries.

  8. Pour the liquid over them.

  9. Let them stand for 4 days.

  10. Strain the mixture.

Make the syrup

  1. Combine the strained liquid in an enamelled pan with 1 lb of sugar for every pint of juice.

  2. Boil gently for 5 minutes or until the scum ceases to rise.

Bottle

  1. Transfer to a clean jug.

  2. Let it cool.

  3. Bottle and cork well.

  4. Store in a cool place.

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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Explore the science

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. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. White wine + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,586 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 the colour of the vinegar.
White wine vinegar
Extracts the fruit flavour and gives the sharp acidity that defines the finished vinegar.
Sugar
Sweetens and balances the sharpness of the vinegar and helps preserve the liquid.

The step that matters

Boiling the syrup gently. Boiling gently with the sugar dissolves it and lets the scum rise to be removed. A hard boil can darken the colour and dull the fresh raspberry 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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