Name: To Make Chilli Vinegar
Ingredients: 4 ounces dry red chillies; 2 bottles malt vinegar or any good pure vinegar

To Make Chilli Vinegar

Ingredients

4 ounces dry red chillies
2 bottles malt vinegar or any good pure vinegar

Directions

Prepare

Wash the chillies and sun-dry them for 1 hour.

Make the vinegar

Boil the vinegar and add the broken chillies.
Let the mixture sit in a large china bowl for 1 week.
Strain the mixture and bottle it for use.

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

Dry red chillies: Supply the heat and flavour that the vinegar draws out during steeping.
Malt vinegar: Acts as the solvent that extracts capsaicin and flavour from the chillies over time.

“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.