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Grape Juice or Unfermented Wine

A homemade grape juice made by boiling grapes with water, adding sugar, and canning the hot liquid.

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 or Unfermented Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Combine grapes and water in a pot.

  2. Boil for 1 hour, then strain the mixture.

Sweeten and can

  1. Add sugar to the juice and boil for 30 minutes.

  2. Skim off any foam and can the juice while hot in glass jars.

Equipment

  1. Use porcelain or granite ware for cooking.

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

Grapes
Provide the juice and the main fruit flavor.
Sugar
Sweetens the juice and balances the grapes' tartness.

The step that matters

Canning the juice while hot. Filling jars with hot juice drives out air and helps form a seal as the jars cool. Skimming the foam first keeps the juice clear and stops it from clouding the finished juice.

“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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