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To Preserve Grapes

This recipe preserves grapes by drying them on paper and packing them with paper layers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Grapes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick off all unsound or unripe grapes.

Dry

  1. Lay the clusters on paper in an empty room until dry.

Pack

  1. Pack the grapes in an empty crate, starting with a layer of grapes.

  2. Add a thickness of paper between layers to exclude air and keep them separate.

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 that dries into a sweet, concentrated product.
Paper
Separates layers and limits air contact while the grapes are packed.

“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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