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Grape Pie

A pie made with grapes, sugar, and a grape sauce filling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,147 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Grape Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the grape filling

  1. Remove the skins from the grapes and cook the pulps separately.

  2. Strain the cooked pulps through a colander.

  3. Add the skins back to the strained pulp and season with sugar to taste.

Assemble the pie

  1. Fill the pie crusts with the grape mixture and top with grape sauce.

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 + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Grape + saucetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 flavor, juice, and bulk of the filling.
Pie crusts
Hold the filling in shape and give the pie its structure.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the tartness of the grapes.

Swap the grape

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sauce. 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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