Name: Raspberry Vinegar
Ingredients: 8 lbs fresh raspberries; 1 gallon white wine vinegar; 200 grains Saccharin

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 ↓

Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

8 lbs fresh raspberries
1 gallon white wine vinegar
200 grains Saccharin

Directions

Infuse

Pour 1 gallon of white wine vinegar over 8 lbs of fresh raspberries.
Let it sit for 48 hours.
Strain the mixture through a jelly bag.

Sweeten and bottle

Pour the liquid into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
Add 200 grains of Saccharin and stir.
Filter the mixture through paper pulp and bottle it.

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.

White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,776 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

Fresh raspberries: Provide the main flavor and aroma that the vinegar draws out during soaking.
White wine vinegar: Extracts the raspberry flavor and adds the sharp acidity that defines the finished drink.
Saccharin: Adds sweetness to balance the sharpness of the vinegar.

“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.