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Raspberry Sauce

A sweet sauce made from water, raspberry jam, sherry, and sugar, optionally colored with carmine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Raspberry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a saucepan, combine the water, raspberry jam, and 3 or 4 lumps of sugar.

  2. Simmer for 10 minutes.

  3. Add the sherry and strain the mixture.

Finish and serve

  1. Adjust the sweetness with sugar to taste and add coloring if desired.

  2. Serve the sauce.

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.

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

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

  3. Sherry + sugartop 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

Raspberry jam
Provides the main fruit flavor and much of the sweetness and body of the sauce.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the raspberries.
Sherry
Adds aroma and a rich, wine-based flavor to the sauce.

Swap the raspberry

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sherry, sugar. 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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