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This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Picking green grapes for making verjuice. It was once used mango sour many contexts where modern cooks would use either wine or some variety of vinegar, but has become much less widely used as wines and variously flavoured vinegars became more accessible.

Modern cooks use verjuice most often in salad dressings as the acidic ingredient, when wine is going to be served with the salad. Arabic, is used extensively in Syrian cuisine. In Syria, much of the production of husroum is still done over the course of several days by female members of land-owning clans—even if many of them live in cities. The husroum produced during this time will be distributed to various households within the extended family and used throughout the year. Persian, is used extensively in Persian cuisine, such as in Shirazi salad.

Maggie Beer, an Australian cook, vintner and food writer, began the modern resurgence of verjuice when she started commercial production in 1984, after a harvest of Rhine Riesling grapes could not be sold. She persuaded a winemaker who was a friend to assist her in turning the juice into verjuice. Niagara Oast House Brewers in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, developed a farmhouse ale around the use of local Niagara Pinot Noir Verjus with the first release in fall 2015. This section does not cite any sources. The authors of The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy write that the grape seeds preserved in salts were also called verjus during the Middle Ages. In the French region of Ardèche, a cider fermented from crab apple juice is called verjus.

In medieval and early modern English cookery texts “verjuice” sometimes means apple juice or crab-apple juice. Larousse Gastronomique: The New American Edition of the World’s Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia. The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy, by Odile Redon, Françoise Sabban and Silvano Serventi, University Of Chicago Press, 2000. FIRST, WE NEED TO SEE SOME ID! By clicking the buttons you agree to the terms and conditions found here. About UPDATES MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AND FRIDAYS!