Name: Primrose Vinegar
Ingredients: 4 pounds brown sugar; 10 quarts water; 6 pints primroses

Primrose Vinegar

Ingredients

4 pounds brown sugar
10 quarts water
6 pints primroses

Directions

Make the syrup

Boil the brown sugar in water for about 15 minutes.
Skim off the scum.

Infuse

Pour the hot liquid over the primroses.

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: Provides sweetness and a molasses-like depth of flavour to the syrup.
Primroses: Supply the floral aroma and flavour that the hot liquid picks up during steeping.

“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.