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Vinegar From Honey

A strong vinegar made by fermenting honey and water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the honey in the water.

  2. Expose the mixture to direct sunlight, covering the cask's opening with coarse linen to keep insects out.

  3. After about six weeks, the mixture will turn into a strong 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

Honey
Provides the sugars that ferment into acetic acid, giving the vinegar its base.

“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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