Name: Curraxt Wine
Ingredients: 1 quart currant juice; 3 quarts water; 2½ pounds sugar

Why it works: Currant and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes. The science ↓

Curraxt Wine

Ingredients

1 quart currant juice
3 quarts water
2½ pounds sugar

Directions

Make the wine

Mix currant juice, water, and sugar together well.
Pour the mixture into a stone jug.

Ferment and bottle

Let it stand for about three weeks until fermentation is complete.
Bottle the wine for use.

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.

Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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What each ingredient does

Currant juice: Supplies the main fruit flavour and the sugars that yeast ferments into alcohol.
Sugar: Feeds the fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide while adding sweetness to the finished wine.

“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.