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Honey Vinegar

A fermented mixture of honey and warm water that turns into white vinegar.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 1 quart of clear honey with 8 quarts of warm water and mix well until fully combined.

  2. Allow the mixture to ferment until it turns into a white vinegar.

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

Clear honey
Provides the sugars that yeast and bacteria ferment into acetic acid, the sour base 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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