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Dried Vinegar Balls

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Dried Vinegar Balls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather blackberries when just half ripe and dry them.

  2. Pound the dried blackberries to a powder.

  3. Mix the powder with a little strong white vinegar to form a stiff paste.

  4. Shape the paste into balls the size of nuts.

  5. Dry the balls well and store them in air-tight boxes.

  6. To use, dissolve one ball in light white wine or a little stale 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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