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Green Rosie



Joined: 13 May 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 11:10 am    Post subject: Cider Vinegar recipe Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bonsoir (note French influence!) ... trouble is I don't have a vinegar mother ...

sean
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

Green Rosie



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nah. Stuff *wants* to be vinegar. Let it get on with it really,

Green Rosie



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Merci - will get this going tomorrow.

sean
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A bientot.

Slim



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 17 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 17 7:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 17 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We do indeed have Lidl here - thanks!

gz



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 17 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 17 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

Green Rosie



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 17 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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