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Sugar Vinegar

A vinegar made by fermenting a mixture of water, brown sugar, and yeast over six months.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Sugar Vinegar

Sugar Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add 2 lbs of brown sugar to 1 gallon of water.

  2. Stir in a little yeast.

  3. Leave the mixture exposed to the sun for six months in a slightly stopped vessel.

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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What each ingredient does

Brown sugar
Supplies the sugar that the yeast ferments into alcohol, the first stage toward vinegar.
Yeast
Ferments the sugar into alcohol, which can then turn into vinegar.

“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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