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Sweet Grape Juice

A sweetened grape juice made by boiling grapes, draining, and clarifying.

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 ↓

Sweet Grape Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Wash and strip the grapes, then cover them with cold water.

  2. Bring the water to a boil, but do not boil the grapes.

  3. Pour the mixture into a jelly bag and let it drain overnight without squeezing.

Sweeten and seal

  1. Measure 1 quart of the juice and add ¾ cup of sugar.

  2. Boil the mixture and skim to clarify, then seal in 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

Grapes
Provide the fruit and juice that give the drink its main flavor.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the natural tartness of the grape juice.

The step that matters

Drain without squeezing. Squeezing the jelly bag pushes fine pulp and solids through the cloth, which makes the juice cloudy. Letting gravity do the work keeps the juice clear.

“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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