Name: Raspberry Wine
Ingredients: 1 quart well-picked raspberries; 1 quart water; 3 pounds lump sugar; 1 tablespoon brandy or wine per bottle

Raspberry Wine

A fermented raspberry wine made by bruising berries, steeping, straining, sweetening, and aging for two months, then adding brandy or wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients

Why it works: Sugar and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,939 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Wine

Ingredients

1 quart well-picked raspberries
1 quart water
3 pounds lump sugar
1 tablespoon brandy or wine per bottle

Directions

Prepare the juice

Bruise the raspberries and let them stand in water for two days.
Strain off the liquid.

Ferment and bottle

Dissolve the sugar in the liquid and transfer it to a barrel.
After about two months, bottle the wine.
Add a tablespoon of brandy or a glass of wine to each bottle.

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.

Sugar + brandytop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together11,939 recipes

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

Sugar and brandy barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 11,939 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

Raspberries: Provide the main flavour and aroma of the wine.
Lump sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation and provides sweetness and alcohol.
Brandy or wine: Adds extra alcohol and flavour to each bottle.

“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.