Home-made Vinegar

In these days when bought vinegar is so often unsatisfactory we might once more try to make our own at home. A friend writes from Gloucestershire: ‘I think, perhaps, you may like to hear of a few old-fashioned methods, etc., of cookery known to me as a child in Worcestershire 45 to 50 years ago (1931) … I cannot now write down the actual recipes, but they were all easy to make. Many a time have I gathered primroses to make vinegar. We made all our own vinegar at home, and primrose was considered the most delicate in flavour. Gooseberry vinegar, too, was very good.’