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 the fruit
Bruise the raspberries in a bowl.
Pour the vinegar over the raspberries and let it sit for 24 hours, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon.
Make the syrup
Place the broken sugar in an earthen vessel.
Strain the fruit and vinegar through a jelly bag over the sugar until all the juice is extracted.
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 flavour and colour, and release juice when bruised and steeped.
- Vinegar
- Adds acidity that sharpens the fruit flavour and helps preserve the finished syrup.
- Loaf sugar
- Sweetens the mixture and thickens it into a syrup as it dissolves in the juice.
The step that matters
Straining the fruit and vinegar over the sugar. Pressing too hard through the jelly bag can push pulp and seeds into the syrup, making it cloudy. Letting the juice drip through gives a clearer result.
“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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