MAKING HONEY VINEGAR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2346, 23 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

MAKING HONEY VINEGAR.

A f.iNTiilurioj: to Gleanings in I!-e Cu*> tare writes as follow#;—“We make s-v-ral barrels of vinegar every year, aud s-’l it to the folks in town at twenty five cent-, per gallon, ami have had no trouble so far to sell all we had. The demand is in.,;.-i-ing e.vry year, it takes gibs, of bon--y to make a gilioti ' i vinegar, and two years time to in ike. We make the mast of ours oa*. of refuse honey, or honey that we cann it u-e for any other purpose, and would otherwise he lost or wasted. \Ve retail a large quantity of hooey ; .ami when the homy iseandhd tier- will he a e m-id-r----ah’c (juantity 1-ft sticking to the sides of the birr- ’-s. We alwavs wa-h -ei" all ibe barrels we expe-l to u- • again. The lir-t washing tint takes off the honey we put in the vinegar. It i-clean: it is nothing hut honey and water. Tien, again, when we are extracting honey we have a hotc with a wire eloth bottom, which we set oxer a barrel that has the upper head out. Into this box we put what cappings we have to drain out the honey. In twenty-four hours nv empty those cappings into a harr-1 that has some wat-r in it, to soil: out what honey remains, straining th-m once or twice ad ay. The hamd will hold what cappings we get in a week. About once a week we strain out the water an 1 put it in the vim-gar and melt the cappings ini.i wax. as there is nothing hot. Again, there is always more or less lion-y tii it ein i- ■ made into good vim-gar tint is not just tit to -II for nice honey. In lint way it is saved. To kiiawwleai tin irat- r i.s siVi---t. enough :--r the vim-gar, put in a - ...el fie.-ii ■ gg. an i unUe lh ■ water swe -- elloujil to tint the egg so that there nili he a paten of tic;

shell out of tiie water about as big as a shilling then it is ab tut rigiit. W-ke.-p mis -finding in barrels, with one head out. to giie :t air : for air it inu-t hj IV- to ni-.ke vineg ir. Tie a s-juar- yard of (•’:•. -Se-e’ Ith over the t-p of to: tv.rre!, to ke--p .list and '.’lies and other insect- - . K-ep mid-r iv.-r out of the rain, in a wi.n. -by. any p’;.--K-tiier in tie- au‘u a-a ..." -piicg. we find ='-m- that i- fit tor she. We it int i our dwelling-hous-; cellar and pit it into our ret filing hirr-is which we l;o-p tin-re lor that pii-p i-. Ihj it- h-en thinking of la’e wh -tie rit weall not h- a g-, ,-i pi ,-j to make ail -ur eh-ap lrei"y i-.to vinegar; ’mp I d--u‘t k:.a •-• haw mu -h i* that w- ein do - en- thing in this dir Ii ii t > rel'-vg th- nurk-e of -eir ! w-prie-d homy. H >:i'-y i- g- f;ng to hj• -o plentiful and eh- ap that v.e mu.-t turn i; into ev.ry ehannd that, will take it.”