Measured pairing · from 63,696 recipes

What goes with raspberry?

Measured across 63,696 recipes, the 8 ingredients that co-occur with raspberry most disproportionately are blackberry (×25.0 chance, n=52), blueberry (×16.2 chance, n=96), strawberry (×8.1 chance, n=111), gelatin (×6.0 chance, n=106), cranberry (×5.4 chance, n=62), peach (×5.3 chance, n=36), brandy (×3.8 chance, n=20) and almond (×3.1 chance, n=94). The score behind the ranking is positive pointwise mutual information — how many times more often a pair shares a recipe than random combination would predict — and n is the number of recipes containing both ingredients. Nothing is published below a floor of 20 recipes per pair and 100 per ingredient. Co-occurrence records what recipe authors actually do — it conflates deliciousness with popularity and tradition — so read it as ethnography, not judgment.

The measured partners — PPMI · ×chance · n

  1. blackberry — PPMI 3.22 · ×25.0 chance · n=52 (blackberry itself appears in 167 recipes)
  2. blueberry — PPMI 2.79 · ×16.2 chance · n=96 (blueberry itself appears in 474 recipes)
  3. strawberry — PPMI 2.09 · ×8.1 chance · n=111 (strawberry itself appears in 1,105 recipes)
  4. gelatin — PPMI 1.79 · ×6.0 chance · n=106 (gelatin itself appears in 1,418 recipes)
  5. cranberry — PPMI 1.69 · ×5.4 chance · n=62 (cranberry itself appears in 919 recipes)
  6. peach — PPMI 1.67 · ×5.3 chance · n=36 (peach itself appears in 546 recipes)
  7. brandy — PPMI 1.34 · ×3.8 chance · n=20 (brandy itself appears in 420 recipes)
  8. almond — PPMI 1.14 · ×3.1 chance · n=94 (almond itself appears in 2,424 recipes)

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Dishes in Palate's live corpus that use raspberry with one of its measured partners:

How this was measured

raspberry appears in 794 of the 63,696 recipes counted (5,296 parsed + 1,081 hand-curated + 57,319 from the dataset published with Ahn et al., 2011). PPMI = max(0, ln(count(A,B)·N / (count(A)·count(B)))), all counts over the same N; lift = e^PMI, which reads directly as "×chance." Staples (salt, sugar, flour, water) are excluded because sources under-record them, and pairs where one name contains the other are excluded as near-duplicates.

Read the numbers with their limits: the corpus is Western-skewed (90% of it is the largely North American and European recipe dataset published with Ahn et al.'s 2011 paper), so the absence of a pairing here proves nothing except who wrote the recipes down. PPMI favors the rare end even above the floor — a niche pair at n=22 can outrank a workhorse pair seen thousands of times, because common ingredients' huge counts divide the score down — so read PPMI and n together.

The full reference — 150 ingredients, top 8 partners each — lives at What actually goes with X.

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Every number above is counted from recipes — pointwise mutual information over 63,696 of them — not chef interviews, model guesses, or reviews.