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Prime Vinegar

A fermented vinegar made from molasses, rain water, and yeast.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the molasses, rain water, and yeast in a large container.

  2. Let the mixture ferment for four weeks.

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

Molasses
Provides sugars that yeast ferments into alcohol, which later becomes acetic acid in the vinegar.
Yeast
Converts the sugars into alcohol to start the fermentation that makes the vinegar.
Rain water
Dilutes the molasses to a fermentable liquid, carrying the sugars and yeast throughout the mixture.

“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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