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Iced Raspberry Vinegar

A chilled beverage made from raspberry vinegar, water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Iced Raspberry Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Make the drink

  1. Mix the sugar, raspberry vinegar, and water together, adjusting the sweetness to your taste.

  2. Freeze the mixture until it reaches the consistency of soft snow.

Serve

  1. Serve in small glasses.

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. Raspberry + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

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

  3. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Sweetens the drink and balances the sharpness of the vinegar.
Raspberry vinegar
Provides the tart raspberry flavour that defines the drink.
Water
Dilutes the vinegar and sugar to a drinkable base that can freeze to a slush.

The step that matters

Freezing to soft snow. Freezing the liquid while stirring or checking it breaks up ice crystals, so it stays slushy rather than setting into a solid block. Sugar lowers the freezing point, so the mixture takes longer to firm up and needs checking to reach the right texture.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, sugar. 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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