I hate waste and like to use up every bit of every thing that I have. Today I made a lot of raspberry and apple compote to water bath from some foraged apples and raspberries from the garden. The price of organic apple cider vinegar is totally out of my price range now and so I thought that, whilst I have this many apple cores and peelings. that I would make some apple cider vinegar.
RECIPE
Cores and apple peels from 6 to 10 apples (organic if possible)
2 tbsp of sugar
Water to cover
Mason jars or similar
Muslin or paper towel to cover.
1. Pack your apple cores and peels into the jar, or jars.
2. Add the sugar and stir in (I made 4 jars out of 20 small apples and added a tbsp of sugar to each.)
3. Cover the peels with filtered water (or other water if that is all that you have).
4. Put muslin or paper over the top with string or an elastic band.
5. Let the jars soak for 2 weeks at room temperature. ( I put mine in a kitchen cupboard).
6. Drain off the liquid and keep. You can compost the apple cores and peels.
7. Put the liquid back into the jars. Cover again and leave for 4 more weeks, stirring once a day.
8. On the 7th week taste the vinegar. If it is not acidic enough you can leave it longer and continue checking and tasting. When it is to your liking you can bottle it.
This can be used in recipes, to take for health reasons, or used to clean your house. It cost me the price of 4 tbsp sugar. 😊
It is nice to know that I can still make a lot of my preserves, even if I can not afford to buy the vinegar.
Oh wow! This is awesome! I have an apple a day with my lunch (a creature of habit!) and I have to buy apple cider vinegar to mix in my chickens’ water to help keep them healthy so this is a REALLY useful recipe to know! Thank you for sharing! I’m guessing you can freeze the cores in a ziplock bag as you accumulate the number needed, yes? Thanks again! Greatly appreciated!!
I have never tried freezing them, but I cannot see why not. Thanks for commenting
Thank you for inspiring me to try this for the first time. I have just started making my first batch today.
Knew I would find this recipe on your blog, got given a pack of 6 apples the other day ( neighbour has gone off them ) so I’m going to do an apples crumble ( everything in fot this ) and make acv with the peels and cores, thank you.
Husband takes a spoonful most days and where I know I can buy it we it going to be so much cheaper to make my own, another great blog, thanks toni xx
Yes tested it with litmus paper and it was acid enough to use for preserving, eating, and great to use for cleaning products too