Name: Curry Vinegar
Ingredients: 3 ounces curry powder; 1 quart vinegar

Curry Vinegar

Ingredients

3 ounces curry powder
1 quart vinegar

Directions

Make the vinegar

Steep the curry powder in the vinegar for ten days.

Use

Use the mixture to add excellent curry flavor to hashes, stews, and cold meats.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Curry powder: Provides the main spice flavor that infuses into the vinegar over the steeping period.
Vinegar: Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor from the curry powder and adds a sharp, acidic note.

“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.