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Unfermented Grape Juice

A sweetened grape juice made by boiling grapes, straining, and adding sugar.

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 ↓

Unfermented Grape Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Pick grapes from the stem.

  2. Boil grapes with water until skins and seeds separate.

  3. Strain the mixture through a colander.

  4. Strain again through a wire sieve, then through cheesecloth.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Add loaf sugar and boil for 30 minutes.

  2. Bottle the juice while hot.

  3. Store in a cool place.

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

Concord grapes
Provide the juice, flavor and color of the drink.
Loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tart grape flavor.
Water
Extracts juice from the grapes during boiling and dilutes the drink.

The step that matters

Strain through cheesecloth. Straining in stages removes skins, seeds and pulp so the juice stays clear. Leftover solids can cloud the juice and cause spoilage.

“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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