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Grape Juice

A beverage made by boiling grapes with water and bottling the resulting juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Grape Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Combine 6 quarts of stemmed grapes with 1 quart of water in a pot.

  2. Bring the mixture slowly to a boil.

  3. Strain the mixture.

Heat and bottle

  1. Return the juice to the heat.

  2. Bring it to a boil again.

  3. Bottle the juice.

  4. Seal the bottle while it is scalding hot.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Grapes
Provide the juice, along with their natural sugars and flavor, which the cook extracts by heating.
Water
Helps the grapes release their juice during the initial heating so it can be strained off.

The step that matters

Seal the bottle while it is scalding hot. Heating the juice to a boil and sealing it while very hot reduces the number of microbes that remain in the bottle. Bottles sealed at a lower temperature are more likely to spoil.

“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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