Name: Grapes, Pickled
Ingredients: fresh grapes; white wine vinegar

Why it works: Grape and white wine work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 201 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Grapes, Pickled

Ingredients

fresh grapes
white wine vinegar

Directions

Remove grapes from the stalks and discard any unsound ones.
Place the grapes in a deep jar and cover them with white wine vinegar.
Seal the jar with a bladder and store it in a cool, dry place.
Let the grapes pickle for one month before using.

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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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 + white winetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together201 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,776 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Grape + vinegartop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,589 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).