Vinegar, Colourless
Ingredients
Directions
Stir together the pickling vinegar and bone black in a container.
Let the mixture stand for 2 to 3 days.
Pour off the clear vinegar.
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
- Bone black (animal charcoal)
- Adsorbs colour and impurities from the vinegar, so the liquid clears as it stands.
- Pickling vinegar
- The liquid being clarified; its acidity carries the flavour of the finished vinegar.
The step that matters
Letting the mixture stand. The charcoal needs the full 2 to 3 days in contact with the vinegar to absorb colour and settle. Pouring off early leaves the vinegar cloudy or dark.
“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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