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Grape Juice

A sweetened grape beverage made by simmering grapes in water, then boiling with sugar and bottling.

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 ↓

Grape Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Extract the juice

  1. Wash the grapes and place them in a large pot with the water.

  2. Simmer until the grapes are soft enough to press out the juice.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Add the sugar and boil for 10 minutes.

  2. Bottle the hot juice 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.

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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 juice and the main grape flavor.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the grapes' natural tartness.

The step that matters

Bottle the hot juice and seal immediately. Sealing the juice while it is still hot helps create a vacuum as it cools, which is the basis of home canning. Delaying the seal lets air and microbes back in, so the juice may spoil.

“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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