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Grape Juice

A sweetened beverage made by boiling grapes and water, then straining and bottling.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Add the grapes and water to a pot.

  2. Bring the mixture slowly to a boil.

  3. Strain the juice through a flannel bag.

Finish and bottle

  1. Return the juice to the pot.

  2. Bring it to a boil again.

  3. Sweeten with granulated sugar to taste.

  4. Bottle and seal the juice immediately.

  5. Serve in wine glasses.

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, along with the flavor and natural sweetness that the drink is built on.
Water
Helps extract juice from the grapes and thins the mixture into a drinkable liquid.
Granulated sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the tartness of the grape juice.

The step that matters

Bottle and seal the juice immediately. The juice must be hot when it goes into clean containers so that heat drives out air and helps keep spoilage microbes from growing. Waiting lets it cool and become vulnerable to contamination.

“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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