Grape Juice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash and remove stems from the grapes.
Add grapes and water to a pot.
Cook and strain
Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain the mixture through a thick cloth.
Return the liquid to the pot and bring to a boil again.
Bottle
Pour into glass jars and seal.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Grapes
- Provide the flavor, natural sugars, and most of the juice that is extracted.
- Water
- Helps extract juice from the grapes during simmering and loosens the pulp.
The step that matters
Straining through a thick cloth. Pressing and straining removes pulp and solids so the juice is clear. Using a thick cloth keeps fine particles from passing into the liquid.
“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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