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Green Grape Jelly

A jelly made from ripe grapes and sugar, cooked and strained, then boiled and jarred.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Green Grape Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Cook the ripe grapes just enough to prevent burning.

  2. Mash the grapes with a silver spoon until the juice is well extracted.

  3. Strain the juice.

Make the jelly

  1. For every pint of juice, add 1 pound of sugar.

  2. Boil the mixture for 20 minutes.

  3. Meanwhile, heat the sugar.

  4. Pour the hot juice over the heated sugar.

  5. Stir well and fill your jars.

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

Ripe grapes
Supply the juice, which carries the natural pectin and acid that help the jelly set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, helps the pectin gel, and helps preserve the jelly.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture for 20 minutes. Boiling concentrates the juice and sugar so the pectin and acid can form a gel. Boiling too briefly can leave the jelly runny, while overcooking can darken its color and weaken the set.

“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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