Name: Cxtrrants and Raspberries
Ingredients: currants; red or white raspberries; sugar

Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Cxtrrants and Raspberries

Ingredients

currants
red or white raspberries
sugar

Directions

Slightly mash the currants, leaving some whole.
Sweeten the currants plentifully.
Just before serving, mix in an equal quantity of fresh, whole raspberries.

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.

Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs

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Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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What each ingredient does

Currants: Provide tart flavour and juice that forms the base of the dish.
Red or white raspberries: Add fresh, delicate fruit flavour and texture when stirred in just before serving.
Sugar: Sweetens the tart currants and balances their acidity.

“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.