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To Make Raspberry Vinegar

Raspberry vinegar is produced by fermenting raspberries with white wine vinegar and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Make Raspberry Vinegar

Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

To Make Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse the raspberries

  1. Place 1 quart of raspberries in a bowl.

  2. Pour 1 quart of white wine vinegar over the raspberries.

  3. Strain the liquid over another quart of raspberries.

  4. Repeat the straining process.

  5. Place the raspberries in a sieve.

  6. Let them drain without squeezing.

Sweeten and cook

  1. Add ¾ pound of lump sugar to a stone jar.

  2. Mix the sugar into the juice.

  3. Put the jar in a saucepan of water over heat.

  4. Let it simmer, skimming as needed.

  5. Remove from heat.

  6. Let it cool before bottling.

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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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. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

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

  2. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

  3. White wine + sugartop 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

Raspberries
Provide the main flavour and colour, with their juice infused into the vinegar.
White wine vinegar
Extracts the raspberry flavour and adds the sharp acidity that defines the finished vinegar.
Lump sugar
Sweetens the vinegar and balances its acidity.

The step that matters

Let the sugar dissolve in a gentle bath. Simmering the jar in water heats the syrup gently, so the sugar dissolves without scorching. Boiling it hard could darken or spoil the delicate raspberry flavour.

“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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