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Rasherry Wine

A fermented raspberry wine made by bruising raspberries, adding sugar, and blending with white wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and white wine work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 71 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Rasherry Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Pick the finest raspberries and bruise them.

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

  3. Add 1 pound of sugar to each quart of juice. Stir well.

Ferment and bottle

  1. Cover the jar and let it stand for three days.

  2. Pour off the clear liquid.

  3. Mix 2 pints of white wine with the quart of juice. Bottle it.

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 + white winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 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. Sugar + white winetop 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

Raspberry juice
Provides the main fruit flavour and liquid base of the wine.
Double-refined sugar
Sweetens the wine and feeds the fermentation that produces alcohol.
White wine
Adds more liquid and alcohol, and blends its flavour with the raspberry juice.

The step that matters

Standing the sugared juice for three days. Yeast needs time to convert the sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Covering the jar keeps out dirt and fruit flies while fermentation runs, and pouring off the clear liquid afterward leaves the sediment behind.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, white wine. 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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