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Home-Made Table Vinegar

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 20

If cider is used instead of rainwater, it will make vinegar much sooner, within a week.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 303. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HOME-MADE TABLE VINEGAR. Put in an open cask four gallons of warm rainwater, one gallon of common molasses and two quarts of yeast

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