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Common Vinegar

A simple vinegar made by boiling water and sugar until cooled.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Measure the same number of pounds of sugar as gallons of water.

  2. Boil the mixture and skim off any scum that rises.

  3. Pour the mixture into tubs and let it cool until it is as cold as beer.

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

Gallons of water
Forms the bulk of the liquid and dissolves the sugar.
Pounds of coarse lisbon sugar
Supplies the sugar that microbes ferment into the acid of the vinegar.

“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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