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Grape Marmalade

A preserve made by cooking grapes with sugar until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and coffee work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 259 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Grape Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub the cooked grapes through a fine sieve.

  2. Measure the pulp and add the same amount of good coffee sugar.

  3. Cook the mixture until it thickens.

  4. Pour into cups and cover with paper that has been brushed with egg wash.

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 + coffeetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

  3. 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

Cooked grapes
Provide the fruit pulp that forms the body of the marmalade.
Good coffee sugar
Sweetens the pulp and helps it thicken as water evaporates during cooking.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture until it thickens. As water evaporates, the sugar and fruit pulp concentrate and set. Stopping too early leaves the marmalade runny, while overcooking can scorch the sugar and darken the flavour.

Swap the grape

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against coffee, sugar. 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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