Cider Vinegar
From The new practical housekeeping, 1890
Serves 10
This method can yield nearly two barrels of vinegar from one barrel of cider.
Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 552. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
the pomace and put it in tight bar- rels or hogs-heads, with one head out, and put in enough rain water to cover it. After it has begun to ferment, draw off from the bottom all that vou can, dilute the. cider with it, and nearly two barrels of vinegar can be made of one of cider. Do not fill barrels in which the cider vinegar is to )ye made quite full, as there should be a space for air. Put into each barrel one or two pounds of bread dough, in the condition *it is in when kneeding out into loaves. Once a day, for a few weeks, draw out from each barrel a gallon of the cider and pour it into the bung-hole, so as to get. air into it. A quart or two of molasses
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