Name: Unfebmented Grape Juice
Ingredients: ripe grapes; water; 3 pints granulated sugar

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 ↓

Unfebmented Grape Juice

Ingredients

ripe grapes
water
3 pints granulated sugar

Directions

Extract the juice

Cover ripe grapes with enough water in a kettle.
Boil for 10 minutes.
Strain through a flannel cloth.

Sweeten and bottle

Add 1 pint of granulated sugar to 3 pints of juice.
Boil for another 10 minutes.
Bottle the juice while hot. Cork 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.

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.

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

Ripe grapes: Provide the juice and the fruit flavour that the finished drink is built on.
Granulated sugar: Adds sweetness and body to the juice, balancing the tartness of the grapes.

“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.