Name: Rose Vinegar
Ingredients: fresh rose leaves; best white wine 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 ↓

Rose Vinegar

Ingredients

fresh rose leaves
best white wine vinegar

Directions

Fill a stone or china jar loosely with fresh rose leaves.
Pour enough white wine vinegar over the leaves to fill the jar.
Cover the jar and place it in the sun or a warm spot for three weeks.
Strain the mixture through a flannel bag and bottle it for use.

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).
Rose + white winetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together162 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Rose + vinegartop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together96 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 rose leaves: Supply the rose aroma and flavour that infuse into the vinegar.
Best white wine vinegar: Acts as the solvent that draws flavour out of the leaves and keeps the infusion stable.

“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.