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Grape Juice

A sweetened grape juice made by boiling grapes and water, then straining and bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and sugar 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 Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and stem the grapes.

  2. Add water and bring to a boil.

  3. Strain the mixture through a bag.

Sweeten and boil

  1. Return the juice to the fire.

  2. Add sugar.

  3. Boil the juice hot.

Bottle and seal

  1. Bottle the juice.

  2. Cork immediately.

  3. Seal with paraffin or sealing wax.

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 + sugartop 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

Grapes
Provide the flavor and most of the juice for the drink.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the grape juice.

The step that matters

Cork immediately. Hot juice sealed while still warm creates a vacuum as it cools, which helps keep air and spoilage microbes out of the bottle. Waiting lets air and microbes in before the seal forms.

“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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