Sugar Vinegar

Ingredients

• twenty-five pounds of good brown sugar
• hot rain water, or soft water
• get a piece of what is called 'the mother' from some other vinegar barrel

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve twenty-five pounds of good brown sugar in hot rain water or soft water, strain it into a clean vinegar barrel, and fill up with soft water.

2. 2

   Add a piece of 'the mother' and let it stand in the sun for six weeks.

3. 3

   Then store in a warm cellar until good, which may take six months.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sugar Vinegar. Dissolve twenty-five pounds of good brown sugar in hot rain waler, or soft water, then strain it into a clean vin^ar barrel with iron hoops, then fill up with 228 The Queen Cook Book soft water strained; get a piece of what is called " the mother " from some other vinegar barr

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