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Raspberry Sauce

A sweet and tart sauce made from raspberry jam, water, sherry, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and sherry work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 109 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a saucepan, combine water, raspberry jam, and sugar.

  2. Simmer for 10 minutes.

  3. Add sherry.

  4. Strain the mixture.

Finish and serve

  1. Adjust sweetness with more sugar if needed.

  2. Add coloring if desired.

  3. Serve warm.

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.

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

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

  3. Sherry + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,141 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Raspberry jam
Provides the main raspberry flavor and fruit sweetness to the sauce.
Sherry
Adds a fortified wine aroma and a sharp, acidic note that balances sweetness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, which can be adjusted to taste at the end.

Swap the raspberry

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sherry, sugar. 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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