TARRAGON VINEGAR

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (7)
  1. Take tarragon just as it is going into bloom, strip off the leaves.
  2. To every pound of leaves put a gallon of strong white wine vinegar in a stone jug to ferment for a fortnight.
  3. Then run it through a flannel bag.
  4. To every four gallons of vinegar put half an ounce of isinglass dissolved in cyder.
  5. Mix it well with vinegar.
  6. Then put it into large bottles, and let it stand one month to fine.
  7. Then rack it off, and put it into pint bottles for use.
Original Text
To make TARRAGON VINEGAR. TAKE tarragon just as it is going into bloom, strip off the leaves, and to every pound of leaves put a gallon of strong white wine vinegar in a stone jug to ferment for a fortnight, then run it through a flannel bag; to every four gallons of vinegar put half an ounce of isinglass dissolved in cyder, mix it well with vinegar, then put it into large bottles, and let it stand one month to fine, then rack it off, and put it into pint bot- tles for use.
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