Name: Wild Qrape Marmalade
Ingredients: grapes; 1 pound sugar

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 ↓

Wild Qrape Marmalade

Ingredients

grapes
1 pound sugar

Directions

Prepare the grapes

Pick the grapes from the stems and wash them.
Put the grapes in a pot and heat them, stirring and mashing with a wooden spoon.
Once well cooked, sift the mixture through a wire sieve to obtain the pulp.

Make the marmalade

For every pint of pulp, add 1 pound of sugar.
Boil the mixture for fifteen minutes.
Pour into jelly tumblers.

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.

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 fruit pulp that forms the body and flavour of the marmalade.
Sugar: Sweetens the pulp and helps it thicken and set as it boils.

“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.