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Raspberry or Currant Wine

A homemade wine made from raspberries or currants, water, and sugar, fermented over several days.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Raspberry or Currant Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Clear the fruit of any mouldy or bad pieces.

  2. Bruise the fruit and let it sit in water for 24 hours.

Make the wine

  1. Strain the liquor and add 1 pound of sugar for every quart.

  2. Place the mixture in a large pan and remove any scum that rises after 3-4 days.

  3. Transfer the liquor to a barrel when fine.

  4. If using your own garden fruit, add more as it ripens, keeping track of amounts.

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. Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Fruit (raspberries or currants)
Supplies the main flavour, aroma and acidity of the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and balancing the wine's sourness.

The step that matters

Transfer the liquor to a barrel when fine. Moving the wine before it has cleared stirs up the sediment and yeast that have settled out. Wait until the liquid is clear, then rack it off the deposit so the finished wine stays bright and free of cloudiness.

“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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