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Geape Wine

A fermented grape wine made with grapes, grape juice, water, sugar, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Geape Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the must

  1. Pick the grapes and mash them without breaking the seeds.

  2. Cover with a woolen cloth and let stand for 7 to 10 days, stirring daily until fermentation begins.

Add sweetener and finish

  1. Strain the mixture and add 1 quart of water and 3 pounds of sugar to the 4 quarts of juice.

  2. In November, add the beaten whites of 24 eggs to about 30 gallons of wine.

  3. Bottle the wine before the March winds.

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

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 + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

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

  3. 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

What each ingredient does

Grapes
Provide the juice, sugar source and flavor that ferment into the wine.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and adding sweetness.
Egg whites
Clarify the wine by binding particles that settle out, leaving it clearer.

The step that matters

Stirring daily until fermentation begins. Stirring keeps the pulp and skins in contact with air and yeast so fermentation starts evenly. Fermentation is the step that turns sugar into alcohol, so a stalled start delays the whole batch.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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