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Different Ways of Making Vinegar

A method for making vinegar from wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Different Ways of Making Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the wine

  1. Fine the wine as directed in the article about wines.

  2. Once clear, put it in a wooden faucet (avoid brass).

Draw off and refill

  1. Draw off a third of the wine, bottle it, and cork it well.

  2. Fill the remaining vinegar with good wine of the same color.

  3. Stop it lightly with a cork.

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

Wine
Turns into vinegar as it sours, so its color and flavor carry into the finished 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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