Wine vinegar is widely used in cooking and folk medicine. If your wine is sour, then you do not need to pour it out. This drink can be given a second life by making wine vinegar.
It is necessary
- - fermented wine;
- - glass containers;
- - water;
- - sugar.
Instructions
Step 1
If table wine is sour, then you can make wine vinegar from it according to the following recipe. Take 1.5 liters of the indicated drink and pour it into a five-liter glass jar. Add 4.5 liters of boiled water to this.
Step 2
Sugar honey will also go to wine vinegar. Take 400 grams of honey or sugar and add to the container too.
Step 3
Next, pour the tartar into the mixed liquid - the sediment from the wine, stir the contents again. Place the container covered with gauze in a dark, warm place. Here the wine will ferment for 50-55 days.
Step 4
Then place a triple layer of cheesecloth on a sieve or colander and strain the resulting liquid product. Pour it into bottles, close tightly. Store homemade wine vinegar in a cool place.
Step 5
Add it to salads. It is good for marinating fish, meat. You can make vegetable rolls with vinegar from fermented wine. Since it matures for almost 2 months, prepare it in advance so that it can be used for canning during the harvest season.
Step 6
The vinegar has a long ripening period, so it should be done long before the season of seaming and spinning.
Step 7
If you want to make wine vinegar according to an old Portuguese recipe, you will need an oak barrel or at least wood chips.
Step 8
First you need to get the leaven, which is made according to the previous recipe. Just use grape juice instead of wine. Enough 150-200 grams of wine vinegar.
Step 9
Pour it and 1.5 liters of sour wine into an oak barrel. If not, then take a glass container and place a couple of oak chips there. Add a cinnamon stick if desired.
Step 10
Leave the container for a month at room temperature indoors. After this period, the product will be ready. Store it in the refrigerator. After a little vinegar remains at the bottom, add more sour or regular wine, leave it in the room and after a month the wine vinegar will be ready again.
