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Sugar From Grapes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,690 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sugar From Grapes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Express the juice from the grapes.

  2. Add chalk to neutralize the acid.

  3. Allow the liquid to settle.

  4. Pour off the clear liquid.

  5. Clarify with egg whites, skim, and evaporate.

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 + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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