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Grape Juice

A beverage made by boiling grapes with water, then straining and reheating.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the juice

  1. Combine grapes and water in a pot.

  2. Heat slowly until boiling, then simmer for 15 minutes.

  3. Strain the mixture through a thick cloth.

  4. Return the liquid to the pot and bring to a boil again.

Bottle

  1. Pour into glass jars and seal.

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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What each ingredient does

Grapes
Provide the fruit flavour, natural sugars and juice that makes up the drink.
Water
Helps extract juice from the grapes during heating and simmering.

“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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