Apple Scrap Vinegar
When the apple harvest comes in and you’ve spent time making apple butter, applesauce, apple juice, and apple jelly, you are left with a LOT of apple cores and other apple scraps. For a no-waste kitchen, I like to turn my apple scraps into healthy, probiotic-rich apple scrap vinegar! This is such a cheap and easy way to get good quality vinegar with the “mother” in it that costs a fortune in the grocery store. And you can make it at home for pennies!
Equipment
- half-gallon glass jar
- coffee filter
- rubber band
- wooden spoon or chopstick
Ingredients
- apple scraps
- 1/4 cup sugar
- filtered water
Instructions
- Fill up your glass jar half-way with apple scraps that are either fresh or frozen. They shouldn't have any mold growing but bruised spots are fine. Also, stems and blossom ends can be left in.
- Add 1/4 cup of sugar and then top off with filtered, unchlorinated water.
- Stir with the handle of a wooden spoon or long chopstick. Place the coffee filter on top and secure with a rubber band. Set out of direct sunlight.
- Stir every day or two for a month to prevent mold from developing.
- After one month, strain out the apples and decant your apple scrap vinegar into clean glass jars.