Name: Raspberry Acid
Ingredients: 6 pounds raspberries; 1 quart water; 2.5 ounces tartaric acid

Raspberry Acid

Ingredients

6 pounds raspberries
1 quart water
2.5 ounces tartaric acid

Directions

Acidulate the water with tartaric acid.
Combine the raspberries with the acidulated water.
Stir well to mix the ingredients.

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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What each ingredient does

Raspberries: Provide the main fruit flavour, aroma and body of the acid solution.
Tartaric acid: Adds sourness and brightness, lowering the pH of the mixture.

“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.