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Fbeseryxd Raspberries

Red raspberries preserved whole in sugar syrup flavoured with cherry and currant juice, then sealed in jars.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,598 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fbeseryxd Raspberries

Ingredients

Directions

Macerate the fruit

  1. Pick and place raspberries in a preserving pan with an equal weight of sugar.

  2. Boil the mixture about a dozen times and skim it.

  3. Pour the mixture into a pan and leave until the next day.

Make and pour the syrup

  1. Drain the fruit and place it into jars.

  2. Add cherry juice to the syrup.

  3. Boil the sugar again.

  4. Pour the syrup over the raspberries.

Finish and seal

  1. Once cooled, add currant juice to each jar.

  2. Cover each jar with wax paper and secure with string.

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. Sugar + cherrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Cherry + curranttop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Sugar + curranttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,256 recipes

Sugar and currant barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 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

Red raspberries
Provide the fruit body, flavor and bulk of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out moisture, helping preserve it.
Cherry juice
Adds fruity acidity and flavor to the syrup.
Currant juice
Adds tartness and a sharper fruity flavor to each jar.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cherry. 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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