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Grape Juice a LA Cleveland

A sweetened grape juice made by cooking Concord grapes and adding sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 a LA Cleveland

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Wash and stem the grapes.

  2. Cook the grapes until soft, about 20 minutes.

  3. Drip the mixture through a bag overnight to extract the juice.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Measure the juice and add 1 quart less water than the amount of juice.

  2. Stir in the granulated sugar and cook for an additional 20 minutes.

  3. Bottle the juice 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.

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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.

  1. 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

Concord grapes
Provide the juice and the characteristic grape flavor of the drink.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the juice and balances the grapes' natural tartness.

The step that matters

Adding the water. The water must be measured against the juice volume, as the recipe specifies. Too much water dilutes the grape flavor and sweetness, while too little leaves the drink overly concentrated and tart.

“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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