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To Make Vinegar From Honey

A fermented honey and water mixture that yields vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Make Vinegar From Honey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine honey and hot water in a jar.

  2. Allow the mixture to ferment.

  3. Strain the fermented mixture into jugs.

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

Honey
Provides the sugar that yeast ferments into alcohol, which later becomes the vinegar's acetic acid.
Hot water
Dissolves the honey so the sugars are evenly available to the fermenting yeast.

“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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