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Grape Marmalade

A preserve made by cooking grapes with water until thickened.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Grape Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the grapes with ½ cup of water until soft.

  2. Mash the mixture and strain to remove skins and seeds.

  3. Return the liquid to the pot and cook until it thickens to a marmalade consistency.

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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What each ingredient does

Grapes
Provide the fruit flavour, natural pectin and body that the marmalade is built from.

The step that matters

Cooking until it thickens. Grape pectin and sugar set only when enough water has evaporated; stopping too early leaves a runny marmalade, while overcooking can make it stiff once cooled.

“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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