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Raspberry Vinegar Water

A beverage made by infusing raspberries in white wine vinegar, sweetening with sugar, and bottling after cooling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,493 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Raspberry Vinegar Water

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse the raspberries

  1. Place 1 pound of raspberries in a bowl and pour 1 quart of white wine vinegar over them.

  2. The next day, strain the liquid over another pound of fresh raspberries without squeezing the fruit.

  3. Drain the liquid as dry as possible and pass it through a canvas wetted with vinegar.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. In a stone jar, combine the strained liquid with 1 pound of sugar for every pint of juice, stirring until melted.

  2. Simmer the jar in a saucepan of water or on a hot hearth, skimming as needed.

  3. Once cooled, bottle the mixture.

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. Wine + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,493 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

  3. Wine + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9,581 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 aroma that the vinegar draws out.
White-wine vinegar
Extracts the fruit's flavour and provides the sharp acidity of the finished drink.
Sugar
Sweetens the infused liquid and balances the vinegar's acidity.

The step that matters

Simmering the sweetened liquid. Sugar must fully dissolve before heating, and gentle simmering in a water bath keeps the mixture from scorching or boiling hard, while skimming removes foam and impurities that would cloud the syrup.

“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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