How To Make Grape Molasses

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3.75 from 28 votes

A favorite Ancient Greek sweetener used to make cookies and other traditional Greek sweets.

Cook Time2

Course: Drinks

Cuisine: Greek

Keyword: healthy, sugar-free

Servings: liter +

Calories: 2850kcal

Ingredients

2.5 liters Grape Must see how to make it here

Instructions

Add the Grape Must to a large cooking pot and bring to a gentle simmer.
Simmer over medium-low heat until it gets reduced to ¼. Then store it in sterilized glass jars or bottles for up to a year. To make a thick Petimezi keep simmering until the liquid gets thick as honey and reduced down to ⅕ of the original volume of the Must (see Note 1 below).

Notes

Note 1: How much you will need to reduce the Must will depend on the grapes you're using. For example, a white variety of grapes will need to be reduced a little bit more than a red variety of grapes.

Also, the amount of sugars each variety contains plays an important role in thickening Grape Molasses. More sugars equals more thick liquid.

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