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Grape Pie

A pie made from grapes, sugar, flour, and pie crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Grape Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Remove the pulps from the skins of the grapes into one dish. Place the skins in another dish.

  2. Simmer the pulp over low heat to soften it.

  3. Rub the softened pulp through a colander to separate it from the seeds.

  4. Combine the skins and pulp.

  5. Sweeten the grape mixture with sugar.

  6. Let the sweetened mixture cool.

Assemble and bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a pie dish lined with pie crust.

  2. Sprinkle flour on top of the mixture.

  3. Cover with another layer of crust.

  4. Wet the edges of the crust together. Pinch the wet edges together.

  5. Cut a slit in the center of the crust for steam to escape.

  6. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 20 minutes.

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. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Grape + flourtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,482 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. 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

Grapes
Provide the main filling, with their pulp and skins giving flavor and body.
Sugar
Sweetens the grape filling and balances its tartness.
Flour
Thickens the grape juices so the filling holds together when cut.
Pie crust
Forms the lined base and top layer that encloses the filling.

The step that matters

Rub the pulp through a colander. Pressing the softened pulp separates it from the seeds, which are bitter and hard. Leaving seeds in makes the filling gritty and unpleasant.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour. 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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