Why it works: Gooseberry and sugar work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 131 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓
Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bruise the raspberries in a bowl.
Pour the vinegar over the raspberries and let them sit for 24 hours, stirring occasionally.
Place the sugar in an earthen vessel.
Make the vinegar
Strain the raspberry mixture through a jelly bag into the vessel with sugar, pressing gently to extract all the juice.
Pour the liquid into a preserving pan and boil it over moderate heat.
Bottle and serve
Once cooled, bottle the vinegar for storage.
To serve, mix 2 tablespoons of the vinegar with a tumbler of water, adding vinegar if too sweet.
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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Gooseberry + sugartop 25% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together131 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Raspberries
- Provide the main fruit flavour and the juice that becomes the vinegar.
- Vinegar
- Supplies the sharp acidity that balances the fruit and the sugar.
- Loaf sugar
- Adds sweetness that softens the sharpness of the vinegar.
The step that matters
Boiling over moderate heat. Boiling the strained liquid over moderate heat concentrates its flavour without scorching the sugar. Too fierce a heat can darken the mixture and make it taste bitter or burnt.
“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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