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Sultana Sauce

A sweet sauce made from sultana raisins simmered in water and sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,481 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Sultana Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the raisins

  1. Steam and seed the sultana raisins.

Make the syrup

  1. Add the raisins to 1 cup of boiling water and let simmer for 30 minutes, adding more water if needed.

  2. Stir in ½ cup of sugar and let it boil until it forms a syrup.

  3. Flavor to taste.

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. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 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

Sultana raisins
Soften as they simmer and release their fruity sweetness into the liquid.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and thickens into a syrup as the liquid boils down.

The step that matters

Boiling the sugar into a syrup. Sugar syrup thickens quickly as water evaporates, so it can become too thick or scorch on the bottom of the pan if left unattended. Keeping the heat controlled lets the sugar dissolve fully and reach a smooth, pourable consistency.

“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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