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Grape Frappe

A frozen grape beverage made with grape juice, lemon juice, sugar, water, ice, and coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Grape Frappe

Why it works: Grape and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,412 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Grape Frappe

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Boil the water and sugar together for 10 minutes.

  2. Strain the mixture through cheesecloth into the freezer can.

Freeze

  1. When cold, add the grape juice and lemon juice.

  2. Pack the can with ice and salt in equal proportions.

  3. When the mixture is half frozen, remove the dasher and pack it until ready to serve.

  4. Scrape the frozen mixture from the sides of the can and beat well before serving.

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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Explore the science

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 + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,412 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + grapetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolved in boiling water to sweeten the base and soften the texture of the frozen ice.
Grape juice
Provides the main flavour and liquid for the frappe.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the grape flavour and balances the sweetness.
Ice
Chills the mixture so it freezes while the salt lowers the ice's melting point.

The step that matters

Scrape the frozen mixture from the sides of the can and beat well before serving.. Ice crystals form on the cold walls first, so scraping and beating break them up and keep the frappe smooth rather than icy and coarse.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lemon. 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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