To Make Sugar Vinegar
Ingredients
Directions
Add the sugar to a tub and pour in the boiling water.
Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved.
Allow the solution to cool to blood heat.
Once cooled, add the yeast and mix well.
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
- Loaf sugar
- Provides the sugar that yeast ferments into alcohol, which bacteria then turn into acetic acid.
- Yeast
- Ferments the sugar solution into alcohol, the first step toward vinegar.
The step that matters
Cool to blood heat before adding the yeast. Boiling-hot liquid would kill yeast cells. Cooling to about body temperature lets the yeast survive and start fermenting the sugar.
“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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