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Grape Tarts

A tart made with cooked grapes, sweetened, served on pie crusts and topped with sweetened whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Grape Tarts

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Remove the pulp from the grapes.

  2. Cook the grapes until tender.

  3. Rub the cooked grapes through a sieve to remove the seeds.

  4. Add the pulp back to the skins.

  5. Cook the mixture for five minutes.

  6. Sweeten the mixture to taste.

  7. Seal the mixture in jars for winter use.

Assemble and serve

  1. Serve the grape mixture on individual pie crusts.

  2. Top the crusts with sweetened whipped cream.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Grape + creamtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,284 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Grapes
Provide the main fruit flavour and the bulk of the filling once cooked down.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the tartness of the grapes, added to taste.
Individual pie crusts
Hold the grape filling and give the tart its base structure.
Sweetened whipped cream
Adds a light, creamy topping that contrasts with the cooked fruit.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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