[Sca-cooks] wine vinegar

[patrick.levesque at elf.mcgill.ca]

I vaguely recall a period or slightly OOP French source on making vinegar that
mentioned leaving a cask of vinegar near the fireplace, and gradually adding
leftover wine to replace vinegar used in cooking.

Which leaves me wondering whether they would have mixed both wines in the
vinegar cask?

I'll look it up once I'v recovered from this week-end's feast (and give you more
details about the feast as well!)

Petru


Selon Carole Smith <renaissancespirit2 at yahoo.com>:

> I always thought they'd use some leftover wine that had soured.
> As for what kind, grape based seems most likely.  I doubt that Europeans in
> period knew about rice wine and rice vinegar.
>
> Cordelia Toser
>