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Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 11:10 am Post subject: Cider Vinegar recipe
Has anyone got a recipe for cider vinegar. I have a lot of windfall apples and would love to make some of my own vinegar. PS hello everyone again!!

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 8924
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 12:18 pm Post subject:

Hiya! (notice the Welsh influence creeping in).

As far as I'm aware from past experience, the easiest method is to press the apples and add a vinegar mother to the juice. Large open topped jar with a muslin over it to allow plenty of oxygen and keep it in a cool dark place (nowhere near any cider making ventures). If it starts to smell like acetone, beat some air into it.

There might be easier methods. Dpack will know!!

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 8:20 pm Post subject:
Bonsoir (note French influence!) ... trouble is I don't have a vinegar mother ...

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 8:26 pm Post subject:
If you buy a bit of artisanal, non-pasteurised, non-filtered etc vinegar and chuck it in it'll probably get going.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 8:53 pm Post subject:
No need to buy - I have a bottle of that lurking on my shelf. Some recipes I have seen online talk about covering apples with filtered water. Is this necessary?

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:03 pm Post subject:
Nah. Stuff wants to be vinegar. Let it get on with it really,

Green Rosie

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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:04 pm Post subject:
Merci - will get this going tomorrow.

sean
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:07 pm Post subject:
A bientot.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:39 pm Post subject:
I've only ever helped make vinegar intentionally once in Belize and we just mashed/juiced pineapples into buckets and covered with cheesecloth. Also added a bit of mother from their previous batch. Have accidentally made apple cider vinegar plenty of times in the back of fridge in good apple years when gallon jugs of fresh pressed cider are sometimes gifted left and right.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 8924
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 17 7:29 am Post subject:
I'm sure you must have a Lidl somewhere near you in Calvados... buy a bottle of their white wine vinegar and add it - very susceptible to developing mothers...

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 17 7:50 am Post subject:
We do indeed have Lidl here - thanks!

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 7219
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 17 2:35 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

If you buy a bit of artisanal, non-pasteurised, non-filtered etc vinegar and chuck it in it'll probably get going.

I started with organic cider and organic cider vinegar....lovely result and I'm on the second batch...just could do with a bit more sun on the windowsill for it to work quicker!

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 17 3:10 pm Post subject:
Start off trying to make cider, ime. Good luck!

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 17 3:49 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Start off trying to make cider, ime. Good luck!

That was my plan .... I'll leave the cider to the local Normans who make oodles of the stuff and sell it at a very reasonable price

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