Name: Qbafe Wine
Ingredients: 1 gallon well bruised grapes; 1 gallon water; 3 pounds 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 ↓

Qbafe Wine

Ingredients

1 gallon well bruised grapes
1 gallon water
3 pounds sugar

Directions

Combine 1 gallon of well bruised grapes with 1 gallon of water.
Let the mixture stand for one week.
After a week, add 3 pounds of sugar to the mixture for every gallon of wine.
Allow it to stand for three months.
Draw off the wine and bottle it.

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).

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What each ingredient does

Grapes: Provide the fruit sugars and natural yeasts that ferment the mixture into wine.
Sugar: Feeds the fermentation, producing alcohol and adding sweetness to the finished wine.

“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.