Violet Vinegar

Ingredients

• wood violets
• as much white wine vinegar as they will take

Method

1. 1

   Pick wood violets in the spring, remove the stems, and put the flowers into bottles, shaking them down to make them lie closely, then pour to them as much white wine vinegar as they will take, cork, and set the bottles in the sun for three or four weeks.

2. 2

   Now strain off the vinegar, and bottle and cork it down closely.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Pickles and Preserves (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Violet Vinegar ( German ). — Pick wood violets (as they have the strongest perfume) in the spring, remove the stems, and put the flowers into bottles, shaking them down to make them lie closely, and then pour to them as much white wine vinegar as they will take

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