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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

Extract the juice

  1. Boil grapes in water until soft enough to strain.

  2. Strain the juice through a bag.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Boil the juice and add sugar, then boil for 5 minutes.

  2. Stand bottles in boiling water while filling.

  3. Bottle the juice while hot in pint bottles and seal 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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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 flavor that make up the drink.
Granulated sugar
Adds sweetness and body to the juice and helps it keep in storage.

The step that matters

Bottle the juice while hot. Filling with hot juice into hot bottles helps reduce the chance of contamination and keeps the bottles sealed as they cool. Standing the bottles in boiling water while filling keeps them hot so the juice is not chilled too quickly.

“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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