The word vinegar from Latin is translated as "sour". Fruit vinegars are known since antiquity, because the first mention of them are found in Greece, in ancient Rome, and in Egypt. Grape vinegar is widely used in cooking (for cooking marinades for onions and meat), medicine, etc.
You can buy it at any store, or you can make it yourself at home. Let's consider with you how to make grape vinegar.
The recipe for grape vinegar
Ingredients:
- grape juice - 1 l;
- boiled water - 0,5 l;
- yeast - 10 g;
- sugar - 100 g.
Preparation
How to make grape vinegar? Grape juice poured boiled water, put the yeast and fall asleep sugar. Instead of sugar, you can add honey, as it, after diluting the juice with water, perfectly restores the amount of potassium. On the neck of a jar or a bottle with the contents put on a rubber glove, which then shows you the completion of the fermentation process. Then the resulting liquid is filtered through the cheesecloth and put again in a warm place. Once the solution becomes transparent and stops bubbling - grape vinegar is ready at home and can be bottled.
The recipe for grape vinegar
Ingredients:
- dry grape wine - 300 ml;
- boiled water - 100 ml;
- rye black bread - 30 g.
Preparation
Dry table grape wine, brewed half-boiled cold water, mix thoroughly and pour the mixture into a glass jar or barrel. Then add a slice of rye black bread, wrap the jar with a dense dark cloth and stand for 8 days in a warm place. Then, the vinegar prepared in this way is carefully filtered through gauze or a strainer and bottled preferably from dark glass. That's all, grape vinegar in the home is ready for use.
You can also cook apple cider vinegar yourself, which will be an order of magnitude different from your store version.