Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 1 pound fine raspberries; 1 quart white wine vinegar; 1 pound fresh raspberries; 1 pound sugar

Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

1 pound fine raspberries
1 quart white wine vinegar
1 pound fresh raspberries
1 pound sugar

Directions

Infuse the vinegar

Place 1 pound of fine raspberries in a bowl and pour 1 quart of white wine vinegar over them.
The next day, strain the liquid over 1 pound of fresh raspberries.
Repeat the straining process the following day without squeezing the fruit.
Pass the liquid through a wet canvas to minimize waste.

Sweeten and bottle

Combine the liquid with 1 pound of sugar for every pint of juice in a stone jar.
Stir until the sugar melts.
Place the jar in a saucepan of water or on a hot hearth to simmer and skim.
Once cooled, bottle the raspberry vinegar.

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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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.

White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,776 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,806 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
White wine + sugartop 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

Fine raspberries: Provide the flavour and colour that the vinegar takes up during steeping.
White wine vinegar: Extracts and carries the raspberry flavour and acidity into the liquid.
Fresh raspberries: Add a second batch of fruit flavour when the strained liquid is poured over them.
Sugar: Sweetens the vinegar and balances its acidity.

“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.