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Books: Herbal Vinegar

Facts

Author: Maggie Oster
ISBN: 0-88266-843-9
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Storey Books

The back cover

Vinegar is versatile! And this book covers it all:

• Directions for buying, making, and flavoring inexpensive, easy-to-make vinegars – dozens of ideas for combination herb, spice, vegetable, and flower vinegars.
• Recipes for using flavored vinegars – just a splash for exhilarating basic vinaigrettes, fruit and vegetable salsa, flavorful and tenderizing marinades, spicy dessert sauces, and many more.
• Gift packaging ideas and customized labels.
• Step-by-step instructions for growing flavorful herbs indoors and out.
• Household uses and hints – more than 100 home uses for vinegar, including polishing chrome, prolonging the life of cut flowers, and preparing natural beauty treatments.

Excerpts from Some Thoughts on Vinegar

As my interest and curiosity grew, I read more and more about the history, types, and uses of vinegars. This book is the result of my research. Here’s a summary of just what it offers you.

Chapter 1 presents a brief history of vinegar, from what is known about its ancient origins to its many varieties and uses through the centuries up to the present day. Next, in Chapter 2 there’s a discussion of the many kinds of vinegars available in stores and by mail order, including a description of flavors and general suggestions for using the different varieties.

You’ll also find step-by-step directions for making wine vinegars at home and for flavoring store-bought vinegars with herbs, flowers, fruits, spices, and vegetables. Besides individual flavors, there are also recipes for combinations of ingredients. All of these homemade vinegars are very inexpensive and easy to make. Included are suggestions of ways to bottle your vinegars and decorate for gift-giving.

If you’ve always wanted to grow your own herbs for flavoring vinegars, Chapter 3 provides easily followed, concise information for growing the best “vinegar herbs.” Even if you don’t have garden space, many of these herbs are readily grown in containers on a patio or deck, or even indoors.

No book about vinegar would be complete without a description of the many household, health, and beauty uses for this versatile liquid. Chapter 4 contains hundreds of “recipes” for using the inexpensive distilled or cider vinegars as well as specially scented ones. These will save you time and money (and will fascinate you as well). Whether for cleaning carpets, bottles, laundry, the shower, or your face, vinegar could be the solution for you.

The heart of this book is Part 2, containing more than 175 recipes in which vinegar is an ingredient. Whether you already have a pantry shelf filled with dozens of vinegars or you’re just getting interested, these recipes will help you discover the many opportunities for cooking with vinegar. Using vinegar in cooking often reduces calories and the amount of salt in foods while adding a bracing tang and penetrating complexity of flavor. Included are recipes for appetizers, main courses, soups, pastas, grains, dry beans, vegetables, dressings, marinades, sauces and salsas, mustards, ketchups, pickles, relishes, other preserved food, jellies, jams, desserts, and candies.

A comprehensive sources section lists mail-order suppliers of vinegars, vinegar-making kits, bottles, labels, and herb seeds and plants. Finally, there’s a selected list that suggests further reading about vinegars, herb-growing, and cooking.

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