BS: Things to do with vinegar

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 11:46 AM

Interesting MMario ... sounds much like the origins of ginger beer.

thanks,
sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 10:43 AM

Switchel was a traditional harvest drink - the basics were ginger and vinager and a sweetener (recipes range from very sweet to almost no sweetener at all - and from using white sugar to honey , molasses, brown suger, maple sugar, etc.) diluted with water. Very thirst quenching.

SHRUBS were fruit or herb syrups made by infusing vinager, then sweetening; diluted for drinking with water.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 10:26 AM

It's good to run a cup mixed with a pot of water through your coffee maker. Then a clean pot of water and--boom, clean as a baby's arse.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 09:17 AM

I cleaned a humidifier of scale last night by soaking the parts in vinegar and hot water. When the bubbling stopped I rinsed it all off and put it back together.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: sian, west wales
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:55 AM

Baking soda plus vinegar is a good combo for cleaning drains.

I was surprised to hear an old Welsh friend of mine remark that he learned about putting vinegar into water for poaching eggs from his father-in-law (an American). I thought everybody did that ...

I have recipe for Raspberry Vinegar that was my great-great-aunt's. I think she mixed it with sour cream for a salad dressing and mum seems to remember it being mixed with something (soda water?) for a summer drink.

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: ossonflags
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 06:43 AM

Good for gargling with.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Gurney
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 05:26 PM

Rapaire, I once met a woman who's T-shirt claimed that men were crude machines for turning beer into urine. The fellow she was with had a hat which claimed 'Instant arsehole. Just add alcohol!'

Isn't it nice when people understand each other.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:15 PM

What is switchel Mmario?

Malt vineger goes great with chips.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:13 PM

Pickled eggs .... Good Gawd! I once judged the pickled eggs at the Coldwater County Fair ... never again will I eat a pickled egg.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:12 PM

vinager goes into a whole series of fruit syrups that go great in the summer heat. And cider vinager is the basis of switchel - with some ginger...

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:06 PM

Pickled onions? ONIONS? bah - what a waste of good vinegar.

Pickled walnuts and pickled damsons are more like it. Bought some P Walnuts tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:23 AM

I gotcha ... thanks Rapaire

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:23 AM

Sure. Dissolve sugar in water, add yeast, let it ferment.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:16 AM

I'm non-American and I use smidgeons.

Yes ... sorta like small pidgeons.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:14 AM

I'm non-American and I use ounces.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: open mike
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 01:20 AM

non-americans most likely would not be using ounces, either..
but metric??

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:38 AM

A smidgeon is a small pigeon, right?

My grandmother used to say "skerrick" when she meant a very very little bit.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:07 AM

Put just a smidgeon of vinegar and just a smidgeon of brown sugar into a speggetti sauce.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 11:46 PM

I clean houses for a living. Vinegar is a good all around cleaning agent. It's especially good against soap scum. If you can lay hands on the extra strong cleaning vinegar, you can really go to town.
You can also raise a cake with vinegar and baking soda. There are a number of recipes for them. Add half a cup of brown sugar to the recipe to kill the taste of the vinegar though. (For our non American catters that's half a measuring cup, or 4 ounces.)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 11:46 PM

Water into wine ??

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 11:44 PM

I've tried turning vinegar back into wine or cider but it doesn't work. Trust me on this. I know. (My youngest brother did succeed in turning water into wine, however. It didn't taste like much of anything at all.)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 11:10 PM

No kidding .... funny, when you had your own kids ya tried explaining to them that kind of stuff was a rip off, they never listened to ya and had to go throught the same experience.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: bobad
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 11:06 PM

Yeah I remember the same feeling - not as advertised - and those freebies never looked like the illustrations on the box.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 11:03 PM

Might have been ... can't recall bobad ... overall it was the big cereal companies capitalizing on us kids ... I do now remember being totally frustrated with that frogman ... probably my first experience in being ripped off (even though it was free in the cereal).

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: bobad
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 10:56 PM

I believe the frogman was capitalizing on the TV program Sea Hunt which was popular around that time IIRC.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 10:53 PM

I remeber that too bobad .... the little receptacle which held the baking soda in never stayed on.

In fact I think that PT boat was one ya got if you sent in 2 boxtops of that cereal to the big cereal factory.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: bobad
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 10:47 PM

There was also a frogman that came in cereal which had a receptacle at the bottom of one foot into which the baking soda went and he was supposed to rise and sink, don't remember if it worked too well, maybe the bath water was too dirty.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 10:39 PM

Rapaire ... I remember those subs, also had a PT Boat that ran on baking soda.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 09:09 PM

Put a slurp of it in the water with which you steam shredded red cabbage.

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Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 07:28 PM

She fell off her water skis and broke the world record for the 100 yard douche.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 06:41 PM

Vinegar with

Gurkins
Eggs
Herrings
Whelks
Cockles
Mussels

My wife uses vinegar for descaling etc. I agrre with LTS - vinegar stinks.

I love it when my wife bathes in vinegar, and I lick her dry.
Only joking folks LOL :-) yuk - i'm talking about the vinegar of course :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 06:18 PM

Yeah. Balsamic. I couldn't remember the name and didn't bother to go look it up. I knew it began with "B" and that "Beaujolais" wasn't it.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 05:30 PM

Boil eggs in vinegar/water mix and the shells will soften and come off much easier. Personally I can't stand the smell of boiling vinegar so I don't bother.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 03:01 PM

In my pottery business I use vinegar instead of water to moisten handles and such before attaching them to pots. Being a mild acid, vinegar disolves some of the non-water-soluble materials found in clays, resulting in a more adhesive joint. Vinegar also evaporates more slowly than water, resulting in fewer drying cracks caused by uneven moisture content.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: open mike
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:58 PM

Balsamic>?
(that italian kind?)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:47 PM

I mix it with some baking soda and put it in my little toy submarine and it goes up and down and up and down and up and down until you run out of baking soda and vinegar.








You can also use it with greens, like spinach or kale or mustard greens or turnip greens that have been cooked with bacon.

Or use it as a marinade.

That Italian kind can be boiled down and used as a sauce for fresh strawberries, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: bobad
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:42 PM

Interesting etymology:

" Glacial acetic acid is called "glacial" because its freezing point (16.7 C) is only slightly below room temperature. In the (generally unheated) laboratories in which the pure material was first prepared, the acid was often found to have frozen into ice-like crystals. The term "glacial acetic acid" is now taken to refer to pure acetic acid (ethanoic acid) in any physical state."

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Bert
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:34 PM

You can also use it as a stop bath in photography.

But I'm with jacqui.c pickled onions is the way to go.

Oh course Amos might prefer dill pickles.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 08:53 AM

Vinegar reduces surface tension when added to water - hence the windo washing wheeze.
Wasp stings and jellyfish stings can be reduced in intensity if vinegar is applied quickly (Bicarb of Soda for Bee Sting - note the capitalisation as a mnemonic) - it is all to do with vinegar being acidic and the appropriate stings are alkaline. BS/BS is the otherway round I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 08:51 AM

Mixed with water it's good for cleaning hardwood floors.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Fullerton
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 08:43 AM

From: open mike - PM
       Date: 02 Jan 06 - 07:10 AM
       ......and to find where the cat sprayed,
       use a black light cuz feline urine
       glows under UV light.

It's amazing what you learn here.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: GUEST,Beryl
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 08:32 AM

Not being a gymnast, I'm afraid I can't answer that question. You just need a good culture.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 08:32 AM

Making pickled onions! I'm going to have to start making my own again.

I tried the ones in the local supermarket and they are nothing like the UK ones! I've had to import a jar to go with the cold meats after Christmas.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 08:28 AM

Does the flavour matter Beryl?

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: GUEST,Beryl
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 07:21 AM

Vinegar is good as a vaginal douche, with yoghurt. It balances acidity and is a good treatment for thrush or cystitis.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 07:17 AM

Use vinegar as first aid for wasp stings (but not for bee stings).

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: open mike
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 07:10 AM

windex has ammonia in it..

aND VINEGAR FOR WINDOWS IS GOOD..plus wipe them off with
news paper...even if it is printed on...(for mirrors too.)

vinegar is good to remove hard mineral scale in tea pots.
also coffee makers....and faucets and other plumbing parts
that get caked with hard crusts of minerals.

apple cider vinegar is good to rub on to relieve joint pain.
(not if there is an open wound)

it is also great when mixed with baking =soda and red food coloring
when doing a paper mache' volcano fo rthe science fair!

also vinegar makes a good gargle for sore throat. (again--apple cider.)

some feed it to horses to prevent kidney stones.

it contains acetic acid and will neutralize alkaline stuff..

and to find where the cat sprayed, use a black light cuz feline urine
glows under UV light.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 06:21 AM

Soak it up with fish and chips?

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 06:12 AM

Manitas uses vinegar to clean with... now does anyone know a good way to get rid of the stench of vinegar?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: John O'L
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 05:44 AM

Windows Peace? I've always used Windex and white vinegar as general all-round household cleansers, so I've never tried vinegar on windows. Maybe that's what Windex is.

Oh, and some eucalyptus oil is handy to get the tree sap and bird crap off the bonnet of the car.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with vinegar
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:09 AM

Great to wash windows with.

Subject: BS: What to do with vinegar
From: Gurney
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 02:08 AM

Inspired by the other thread.

I've used white vinegar to remove fresh cement stains. Dark grout from porous ceramic tiles.

It also helps to remove the smell that tomcats kindly leave behind. Not as good as De-Solv-It, though.

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