Name: Rich Raspberry Wine
Ingredients: 2 quarts ripe raspberries; 1 pound double refined powdered sugar; 2 quarts good mountain, sherry, or raisin wine

Why it works: Sugar and sherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,141 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Rich Raspberry Wine

Ingredients

2 quarts ripe raspberries
1 pound double refined powdered sugar
2 quarts good mountain, sherry, or raisin wine

Directions

Prepare the juice

Bruise the raspberries with the back of a spoon.
Strain the raspberries through a flannel bag into a stone jar.
Add 1 pound of sugar for each quart of juice and stir well.
Cover the jar closely and let it sit for three days.

Blend and bottle

Pour off the clear liquid and add 2 quarts of wine for every quart of raspberry juice.
Bottle the mixture and it will be ready to drink in a fortnight.

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.

Sugar + sherrytop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,141 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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What each ingredient does

Raspberries: Provide the fruit flavour and aroma, and the juice that forms the base of the drink.
Powdered sugar: Sweetens the juice and helps draw out flavour as it sits.
Wine: Adds body and alcohol, and blends with the raspberry juice to form the finished drink.

“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.