SC -making vinegar

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/16/00 8:19:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
kareno at lewistown.net writes:

<< So, if I want to make some (a little)   wine vinegar for a particular
 recipe,  I can just mix some of  the wine I would like to use with distilled
 vinegar, and let it sit  "a while?"
  >>

Not if you are actually trying to make vinegar. As a substitute, I don't know 
if it would be close or not. 

Wine vinegar's are not that expensive and certainly are not difficult to 
make. You can put a little cider vinegar or wine vinegar that contains some 
'mother' in it and leave it sit loosely covered for a few weeks. 
Alternatively you can leave the wine exposed to the air and hope the right 
beasts settle into it before it spoils. Those that make vinegar's know that 
that is a sort of Russian roulette and as often as not the wine just spoils.

Ras