Name: Blackberry Wine
Ingredients: 1 quart blackberry juice; 3 quarts water; 4 pounds sugar

Why it works: Blackberry and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,033 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Blackberry Wine

Ingredients

1 quart blackberry juice
3 quarts water
4 pounds sugar

Directions

Prepare

Combine the blackberry juice, water, and sugar in a large container.

Ferment and bottle

Allow the mixture to ferment for four weeks.
After fermentation, bottle the wine and seal the bottles.

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.

Blackberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,033 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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What each ingredient does

Blackberry juice: Provides the main fruit flavor and color of the wine.
Sugar: Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and balancing the wine's sweetness.

“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.