Name: Modern Cookery
Ingredients: 2 pounds of sugar; 6 pounds of gooseberries; 1 pint of raspberry juice

Why it works: Sugar and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,101 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Modern Cookery

Ingredients

2 pounds of sugar
6 pounds of gooseberries
1 pint of raspberry juice

Directions

Dissolve 2 pounds of sugar in water.
Add 6 pounds of gooseberries and boil for 10 minutes.
Strain the pulp and juice from the gooseberries.
Add 1 pint of raspberry juice and boil for an additional 10 minutes.

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.

Sugar + raspberrytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Gooseberries: Provide the main fruit pulp and juice that form the body of the preserve.
Sugar: Sweetens the mixture and helps it thicken and set as it cooks.
Raspberry juice: Adds extra fruit flavour and aroma to the gooseberry base.

“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.