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Grape Pie

A baked dessert made with grapes, eggs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Grape Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the grapes

  1. Squeeze out the grape pulps and place them in one bowl, and the skins in another.

  2. Simmer the pulp briefly and press it through a colander to separate the seeds.

  3. Combine the skins and pulps in a bowl.

Make the filling and bake

  1. Beat the eggs with the sugar in a separate bowl.

  2. Pour the egg mixture over the grapes and bake uncovered.

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. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Grape + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Grapes
Supply the main fruit flavor and juicy body of the filling.
Eggs
Set when heated, binding the filling so it holds its shape when baked.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the tartness of the grapes.

The step that matters

Bake the pie uncovered after pouring the egg mixture over the grapes. Heat makes the egg proteins coagulate, which sets the filling. Baking uncovered lets excess moisture from the grapes evaporate, so the filling firms rather than staying runny.

Swap the grape

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar. 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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