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Grape Juice

A beverage made by cooking grapes with water, skimming, straining, boiling, and bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Grape Juice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a kettle, combine 6 quarts of washed and picked grapes with 2 quarts of water.

  2. Cook until the skins break well.

Strain and bottle

  1. Skim the mixture, then strain it through cheesecloth.

  2. Bring the strained juice to a boil for 5 minutes.

  3. Bottle the juice and seal the corks with sealing wax.

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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What each ingredient does

Grapes
Provide the juice and the fruit solids that are cooked down and strained out.

“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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