Whole Fruit Vinegar Anyone?

 You  cam make your rhubarb/ raspberries into whole fruit vinegar rather than infused vinegar?

 1/2lb of fruit,
1/2 cup cane sugar
 1/4 cup active apple cider
 in 1 quart of water.

Vinegar that is full of flavor.

Drink like apple cider vinegar.
Make into salad dressings.
Spread on pancakes.

Recipe can be increased without an increase in apple cider to make 5 gal & takes 3-5 months to cure.
 Like wine it improves with age and can be infused with herbs or blended with other flavours; rhubarb/ strawberry anyone? Raspberry/Blueberry? Strawberry/Blueberry?

Vinegar Soda Water

 Have you ever tried a shot of vinegar in soda water?
It's a nice, very refreshing drink to serve in the summer!

Rhubarb Vinegar

Since it's rhubarb season we have been trying to come up with new recipes and uses for rhubarb. A few weeks ago we thought of rhubarb vinegar.


  cut rhubarb into approximately 1/2" pieces and filled a pint jar. We decided to do only one pint in case we didn't care for the taste.

  covere the rhubarb with white wine vinegar and put a dish towel over the jar. The book says to keep the vinegar in a cool, dark place and a towel was convenient..

 

 After about a week taste the vinegar and thought it was delicious. The rhubarb flavor was strong enough for our taste. We could have let it sit longer but we liked this.

The flavor is a nice rhubarb taste. So far we have only used the vinegar on a green salad, but I also think it would be good with fruit or chicken.
http://homesteadinginmaine.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-rhubarb-vinegar.html#.UfF4OG04HP8

ORGANIC VINEGAR vs the Petroleum stuff.

ORGANIC VINEGAR 

Wikipedia proves WHAT vinegar can be made of:

Vinegar is made from the fermentation of a variety of sources mainly containing carbohydratesand sugars. Ethanol is first produced as a result of fermentation of sugars, ethanol is then oxidized to acetic acid by the acetic acid bacteria(AAB). The ethanol may be derived from many different sources, including wine, cider, beer, or fermented fruit juice, or it may be made synthetically from natural gas and petroleum derivatives.^[6]

SO WHAT are you using to clean in your home?
WHAT are you using in your baking?
WHAT are you using for canning?
KNOW and if you need to THROW it out.
Keep yourself educated on what goes in your mouth or you use in your home!

Purchase Organic Vinegar

Fleischmanns Vinegar -- read up here.
http://www.fleischmannsvinegar.com/Retail-Products.aspx

 Heinz Vinegar website states the following:

The All Natural National Brand Vinegar
Heinz^® Distilled White and Apple Cider Vinegars are guaranteed to only be made from sun ripened corn or apples

Thumbs up for Heinz!

"Allen’s Vinegar is “made from natural products, not petroleum products”.*

http://www.canadianfavourites.com/Allen_s_Pure_Malt_Vinegar_500ml_p/allens003.htm