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Sugar Vinegar

A fermented sugar solution made by dissolving sugar in warm water, adding yeast, and allowing it to sour.

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

Sugar Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Dissolve the sugar completely in the warm water.

  2. Pour the mixture into a cask.

  3. Stir in the yeast.

Ferment

  1. Seal the cask and keep it in a warm place until it is sufficiently sour.

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

Sugar
Provides the food that the yeast turns into alcohol, which later becomes the sour vinegar.
Yeast
Starts fermentation by converting the sugar into alcohol.

“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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