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
Remove grapes from stems and place them in a pan.
Cover grapes with water, ensuring it is 1 inch above the grapes.
Boil until the grapes are soft enough to squeeze.
Sweeten and bottle
For each quart of juice, add 8 lumps of cut-loaf sugar.
Heat the mixture well and bottle it while hot.
Seal the bottles with sealing wax.
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.
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Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together7,490 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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What each ingredient does
- Grapes
- Provide the fruit and juice that form the base of the drink.
- Cut-loaf sugar
- Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the grape juice.
The step that matters
Heat the mixture well and bottle it while hot. Heating the juice thoroughly before bottling helps reduce microbes that could spoil it later, and hot filling helps the sealed bottles keep their contents stable.
“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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