Elder-flower Vinegar. No. 3.

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (2)
Instructions (5)
  1. Pick the flowers before they are too much blown from the stalks, and dry them in the sun, but not when it is very hot.
  2. Put a handful of them to a quart of the best white wine vinegar, and let it stand a fortnight.
  3. Strain and draw it off, and put it into a cask, keeping out about a quart.
  4. Make it very hot, and put it into your cask to produce fermentation.
  5. Stop it very close, and draw it off when wanted.
Original Text
Elder-flower Vinegar. No. 3. Pick the flowers before they are too much blown from the stalks, and dry them in the sun, but not when it is very hot. Put a handful of them to a quart of the best white wine vinegar, and let it stand a fortnight. Strain and draw it off, and put it into a cask, keeping out about a quart. Make it very hot, and put it into your cask to produce fermentation. Stop it very close, and draw it off when wanted.
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