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Grape Nut Jam

A jam made from grape pulp, nuts, raisins, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and raisin work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Grape Nut Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pulp

  1. Remove the pulp from the grapes and cook until tender.

  2. Cook the pulp until the seeds come out, then rub it through a colander.

Prepare the skins

  1. Save half of the skins, cut them in half, and cook in a separate pot with enough water to cover until tender.

Make and seal the jam

  1. Add the skins, nuts, raisins, and sugar to the pulp.

  2. Cook until it jellies.

  3. Pour into jelly glasses and seal with 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.

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. Nuts + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  3. Grape + nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Grape + raisintop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

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

  5. 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

Sugar
Provides sweetness and, with the pectin in the fruit, helps the jam set.
Grape pulp
Forms the fruit base and supplies the moisture and body of the jam.
Nuts
Add crunch and a toasty, rich texture to the jam.
Seedless raisins
Add concentrated sweetness and chewy texture.

The step that matters

Cook until it jellies. Sugar and fruit pectin must be cooked to the right concentration for the jam to set. Undercooking leaves it runny, while overcooking can make it stiff and sugary.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against nuts, sugar, raisin. 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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