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Grape Wine

A fermented grape beverage made with grapes, soft water, and brown sugar.

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 ↓

Grape Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and break up the grapes.

  2. Cover the grapes with soft water and let them stand for five to six days, stirring occasionally.

Strain and sweeten

  1. Strain the mixture through a cloth.

  2. Add 1 pound of brown sugar for every quart of juice.

Finish and bottle

  1. Once fermented and clear, transfer to a jar.

  2. Bottle the wine for use.

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, natural sugars, acidity and flavor that fermentation turns into wine.
Brown sugar
Feeds the yeast so it produces alcohol, and adds sweetness and a molasses-like depth.

The step that matters

Transfer only once fermentation has finished and the wine is clear. While fermentation continues, yeast is still active and producing gas. Moving the wine off the settled sediment too early can leave cloudiness and off-flavors, and bottling before fermentation ends can build pressure that may break bottles.

“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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