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Apple Wine

Apple wine is made by fermenting cider with sugar over a year.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cider and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,308 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Apple Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the cider into a cask until it is about three-quarters full.

  2. Add the sugar and stir occasionally with a piece of wood or cane until the sugar is completely dissolved.

  3. After 48 hours, insert the bung and place a small vent peg near the top of the cask.

  4. Allow the cask to remain in a cool, dry place for 12 months until the wine is ready for use.

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. Cider + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cider
Provides the fruit base and liquid that ferments into the wine.
Loaf sugar
Feeds fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide, and adds sweetness to the finished wine.

The step that matters

Insert the bung and vent peg after 48 hours. Fermentation gives off carbon dioxide. A vent peg lets that gas escape while keeping air out, so the cask does not build pressure or sour the wine.

“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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