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Unfermented Wine

A simple wine made by boiling grapes, adding sugar and water, then bottling while hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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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 ↓

Unfermented Wine

3 gallons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the juice

  1. Wash the grapes.

  2. Boil the grapes.

  3. Crush the grapes until the juice separates.

  4. Strain the juice through a colander.

  5. Strain the juice through a flannel bag.

Make and bottle the wine

  1. Combine the juice with the sugar and enough water to make 3 gallons.

  2. Boil for 3 minutes.

  3. Bottle while hot.

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 + 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 juice and flavor that form the base of the wine.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and body, and sets the final flavor balance of the drink.

The step that matters

Bottle while hot. Boiling the juice and bottling it hot helps reduce the microbes that could start fermentation. Without that heat treatment, the sugary juice can ferment in the bottle.

“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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