Name: Brandy Made From Raspberries
Ingredients: 1 quart raspberry juice; 1 pound double refined sugar; 2 quarts white wine

Why it works: Raspberry and white wine work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 71 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Brandy Made From Raspberries

Ingredients

1 quart raspberry juice
1 pound double refined sugar
2 quarts white wine

Directions

Prepare the juice

Strain raspberry juice through a flannel bag into a jar.
Add 1 pound of sugar to the juice and stir well.
Cover and let it stand for three days.
Pour off the clear liquid.

Blend and bottle

Mix the clear juice with 2 quarts of white wine and bottle it.
It will be ready to drink in one week.

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.

Raspberry + white winetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together71 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + white winetop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,586 recipes

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

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 raspberry flavor and aroma of the spirit.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and softens the sharpness of the fruit juice.
White wine: Dilutes the juice and adds alcohol-based body to the final drink.