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Jellied Grapes

A dessert of grapes set in a rice and sugar jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and grape work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 839 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Jellied Grapes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Sprinkle the rice and sugar among the grapes in a deep dish.

  2. Pour the water over the grapes and cover tightly.

Cook and serve

  1. Simmer in the oven at 300°F (150°C) for two hours.

  2. Serve with cream as a sauce or cold as pudding.

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. Rice + grapetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice
Its starch thickens the cooking liquid, giving the grapes a jelly-like set.
Grapes
Provide the main fruit flavor and release juice that becomes the syrupy base.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the grapes.

The step that matters

Cover tightly before the long simmer. A tight cover traps steam so the grapes and rice cook in their own liquid. Without it, the liquid can evaporate and the rice may cook unevenly and fail to thicken.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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