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Wild Grapes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and syrup work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 393 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Wild Grapes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick grapes from stems and wash them.

  2. Pack grapes in glass jars.

  3. Cover grapes with thick boiling syrup.

  4. Place rubbers and caps on jars, but do not tighten.

  5. Sterilize jars using your preferred method: hot-water bath for 20 minutes, water-seal for 15 minutes, 5-pound steam-pressure for 12 minutes, or pressure cooker for 8 minutes.

  6. Remove jars and tighten covers.

  7. Invert jars to cool and test the seal.

  8. Wrap jars with paper to prevent bleaching and store.

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 + syruptop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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