Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar
I want to share with you a simple recipe and tell you how to cook apple cider vinegar at home. This product should be in the arsenal of every housewife. In its properties, it is much better than ordinary table vinegar.
It is not at all aggressive, but rather useful, and also very fragrant. It contains many amino acids and vitamins. You can use it for the manufacture of various preparations for the winter, sauces, dressings in salads, etc. But on store shelves, apple vinegar is more expensive than regular table vinegar. And in the process of its manufacture many useful things are lost. Therefore, you can make such vinegar at home, without much effort and cost. And about the naturalness of the resulting product, you will not have any doubts.
Ingredients:
- apples (grated) - a jar, a volume of 1000 ml;
- water - 1000 ml;
- granulated sugar - 100 g;
- yeast (pressed) - 20 g.
How to make apple cider vinegar
The first question that may arise is: “which apples are better to take for the preparation of vinegar?”. Do not take beautiful, large apples. From them you can cook something else. And for vinegar, you can use any fruit, even with defects and damage. The main thing is to trim all the flaws. We cut each apple into several slices, the middle can not be cut.
Next, rub the fruits on a grater (coarse).
In a jar, with a volume of three liters, pour 1000 ml of water, at room temperature. Here we put 20 g of pressed yeast, 100 g of sugar. Mix.
After pour the grated apples. Mix all this with a wooden spoon.
Leave to roam for ten days in a darkened place. The jar does not need to be covered. Also, do not forget to stir our future apple vinegar every day. Mixing is repeated 2 or 3 times a day.
At the end of the period, we strain through a cheesecloth or sieve vinegar into a clean jar. We carefully squeeze the applesauce.
We leave the vinegar, covering the neck of the jar with gauze so that it wanders for about 60 more days. It brightens, and all sediment sinks to the bottom.
When apple cider vinegar (5-6%) is ready, distribute it in glass bottles and twist corks.