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Grapes

This is a preserved grape recipe using fresh grapes and medium syrup, cooked for ten minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and syrup work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 393 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Grapes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the berries from the stalks.

  2. Pack the grapes into clean tins.

Fill and cook

  1. Fill to within ½ inch of the lid with medium syrup.

  2. Cook for 10 minutes.

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.

  1. Grape + syruptop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Fleshy grapes
Provide the fruit itself, which softens and holds its shape during gentle cooking.
Medium syrup
Adds sweetness and moisture, filling the spaces between grapes to preserve the fruit.

“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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