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Grape Wine

A homemade wine made by crushing grapes, fermenting, adding sugar, and allowing it to settle.

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 Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Bruise the grapes.

  2. Let them stand for a week without stirring.

  3. Draw off the liquid and strain it.

Sweeten and ferment

  1. Add 3 pounds of sugar to the gallon of wine.

  2. Place it in a vessel, but do not seal until it stops hissing.

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
Supply the juice, natural sugars and wild yeasts that drive fermentation and give the wine its flavor.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast, which converts it into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

The step that matters

Do not seal the vessel too early. Fermentation releases carbon dioxide gas. While the mixture still hisses, the gas needs to escape. Sealing too soon traps the gas and builds pressure that can burst the container.

“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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