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Grape and Elderberry Juice

A sweetened juice made from grape juice, elderberry juice, water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and elderberry work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Grape and Elderberry Juice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 4 cups of grape juice with 1 cup of pure ripe elderberry juice.

  2. Add 1 cup of water and 1¼ cups of sugar.

  3. Stir well until the sugar is dissolved.

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 + elderberrytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Elderberry + sugartop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 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

Grape juice
Forms the main body of the drink and supplies its primary fruit flavour and sweetness.
Elderberry juice
Adds a deeper, tart fruit flavour and a rich colour.
Sugar
Sweetens the drink and balances the tartness of the fruit juices.

The step that matters

Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved. Undissolved sugar sinks and settles, leaving the drink unevenly sweet and grainy at the bottom. Stirring until it dissolves gives an even sweetness throughout.

Swap the elderberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Elderberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, 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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