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Grape Juice

A beverage made by boiling grapes with water and straining the juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Grape Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Combine grapes and water in a pot.

  2. Heat slowly until boiling.

  3. Strain the mixture through a thick cloth.

Boil and bottle

  1. Return the liquid to the pot and bring to a boil again.

  2. Pour into glass jars and seal immediately.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Grapes
Supply the juice, which carries most of the flavor and natural sugar.

The step that matters

Pour into jars and seal immediately. Hot liquid pushed into jars drives out air as it cools, creating a partial vacuum that helps the seal hold. Delay lets the juice cool before sealing, weakening that seal.

“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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