Muscadine-Apple Mignonette

Name: Muscadine-Apple Mignonette
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: about 1 cup (220 ml)
Cuisine: French Classic
Ingredients: ½ cup muscadine juice (or white grape juice) (120 ml) Grape Juice; 2 Tbsp lemon juice (30 ml) Lemon Juice; ¼ cup apple, peeled & minced (60 ml) Apple; 1 Tbsp grated red onion (Microplane) (15 ml) Red Onion; Pinch salt (0.5 g) Salt; ⅛ tsp white pepper (0.62 ml) White Pepper

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Vivian Howard recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Vivian Howard.

DRESSING · RAW OYSTERS

In the published recipe, this is the dressing for oysters on the half shell.

Vivian Howard's muscadine-apple mignonette for raw oysters.

On the jar

MUSCADINEAPP

Method: shake
Yield: about 1 cup
Ingredients: 6

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Grape Juice 120 mlLemon Juice 30 mlApple 60 mlRed Onion 15 mlWhite Pepper 1 ml

Ingredients

Grape Juice½ cup muscadine juice (or white grape juice) (120 ml)
Lemon Juice2 Tbsp lemon juice (30 ml)
Apple¼ cup apple, peeled & minced (60 ml)
Red Onion1 Tbsp grated red onion (Microplane) (15 ml)
SaltPinch salt (0.5 g)
White Pepper⅛ tsp white pepper (0.62 ml)

Where it sits

One of 719 vinaigrettes in the catalog, with 6 ingredients against a median of 6.

The acid here is grape juice and lemon juice. In this category chefs also reach for red wine vinegar (125 recipes), Sherry vinegar (110), and white wine vinegar (84).

It carries no emulsifier, as 37% of the catalog’s vinaigrettes do.

Method

Pour liquids to the printed fill-lines, bottom to top.
Cap the jar and shake until emulsified.

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Companion jar

Muscadine-Apple Mignonette wants a whisk and a stove. Make it from this page.

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Provenance

Eastern North Carolina chef of Chef & the Farmer (Kinston) and later Lenoir; James Beard Outstanding Cookbook and Best Chef: Southeast. PBS series A Chef's Life documented local produce and hog cookery.

Originally published as Muscadine–Apple Mignonette.

Adapted from a Vivian Howard recipe (Vivian Howard / PBS A Chef's Life).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Vivian Howard / PBS A Chef's Life (published as “Muscadine–Apple Mignonette”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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