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Grape Juice

A drink made by simmering fresh ripe grapes with water, straining the juice, and canning it while hot.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the stems from the grapes.

  2. Combine the grapes and water in a pot.

  3. Bring the mixture to a slow boil.

Strain and can

  1. Once boiling, strain the juice through cheesecloth or a strong cloth.

  2. Return the juice to the pot and bring it to a boil again.

  3. Can the juice while it is at the boiling point.

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 fruit flavour, natural sugar and the juice itself.
Water
Helps extract juice from the grapes and loosens the mixture during heating.

The step that matters

Straining through cheesecloth. Grape skins and pulp hold solids that cloud the juice and can leave grit. Straining while the mixture is hot lets the juice pass through more freely, and a fine cloth keeps the finished juice clear.

“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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