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Black Currant Wine

A fermented beverage made from black currant juice, water, and moist sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Black currant and sugar work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 393 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Black Currant Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine equal quantities of black currant juice and water in a large container.

  2. Add ½ pound of moist sugar for each quart of currant juice.

  3. Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved.

Ferment

  1. Bottle the mixture and allow it to ferment.

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. Black currant + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Black currant juice
Provides the main fruit flavor, acidity and the base liquid for fermentation.
Moist sugar
Feeds the yeast during fermentation, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Water
Dilutes the juice to a drinkable strength and balances its acidity.

The step that matters

Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved. Undissolved sugar may not be evenly available to the yeast, so fermentation can be uneven and the sugar can settle at the bottom of the bottle.

“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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