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Grape Wine

A fermented beverage made from white grape juice, sugar, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and grape are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,490 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Grape Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Make the must

  1. Dissolve the sugar in the water.

  2. When cold, add the grape juice.

Ferment and age

  1. Let it work for 2 to 3 days.

  2. Pour it into a barrel.

  3. When fermentation is over, seal the barrel and let it stand for 6 months.

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. Sugar + grapetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Loaf sugar
Feeds the yeast, which turns the sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation.
White grape juice
Supplies the fruit flavor and the natural yeasts and sugars that start fermentation.

The step that matters

Add the grape juice only when the mixture is cold. Warm liquid can kill or stress the yeast that drives fermentation. Cooling the sugar water first lets the yeast survive and start working steadily.

“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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