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Rich Raspberry Wine , and Raspberry Brandy

A fermented raspberry wine made by bruising raspberries, adding sugar, and fermenting with wine, optionally finished with brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sherry and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,209 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Rich Raspberry Wine , and Raspberry Brandy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Bruise ripe raspberries with the back of a spoon.

  2. Strain the raspberries through a flannel bag into a stone jar.

  3. Add 1 pound of sugar for each quart of juice and stir well.

  4. Cover the jar tightly and let it sit for three days.

Blend and bottle

  1. Pour off the clear liquid and add 2 quarts of wine for each quart of raspberry juice.

  2. Bottle the mixture and it will be ready to drink in two weeks.

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.

  1. Sherry + brandytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Raspberry + sherrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together109 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Raspberry + brandytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  4. Sugar + brandytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together11,939 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Raspberry juice
Provides the main fruit flavour and acidity of the wine.
Powdered loaf sugar
Sweetens the mixture and helps draw out and balance the fruit flavour.
Mountain, sherry, or raisin wine
Supplies the alcohol and base body that carries the raspberry flavour.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sherry, brandy):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sherry, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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