Why it works: Sugar and white wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,586 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
Raspberry Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the juice
Bruise the raspberries and strain them through a flannel bag into a stone jar.
Add 1 pound of sugar to each quart of juice and stir well.
Cover the jar and let it stand for three days.
Finish and bottle
Pour off the clear liquid.
Add 2 pints of white wine to each quart of juice.
Bottle it.
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.
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Sugar + white winetop 30% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,586 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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What each ingredient does
- Raspberries
- Provide the main fruit flavor, aroma, and color of the wine.
- Double-refined sugar
- Adds sweetness and feeds the fermentation that turns the juice into wine.
- White wine
- Adds liquid, extra flavor, and acidity to the raspberry juice.
The step that matters
Stir well after adding the sugar. Thorough stirring dissolves the sugar evenly through the juice, so fermentation starts consistently rather than in pockets of concentrated sugar.
“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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