With dozens of recipes for infusing vinegar with herbs, spices, vegetables, and flowers, this delightful book takes vinegar far beyond salad dressing. Learn to make your favorite homemade vinegars and then use them in dozens of delicious recipes for appetizers, main dishes, sides, salads, desserts, condiments, and more! Oster also includes tips on using vinegar in house cleaning, for improved health, and in self-care products such as facial tonics, hair rinses, and bath mixtures.
This book covers it all —
- Directions for buying, making, and flavoring inexpensive, easy-to-make vinegars — dozens of ideas for combination herb, spice, vegetable, and flower vinegars
- Recipes for using flavored vinegars — just a splash for exhilarating basic vinaigrettes, fruit and vegetable salsas, flavorful and tenderizing marinades, spicy dessert sauces, and many more.
- Gift packaging ideas and customized labels
- Step-by-step instructions for growing flavorful herbs indoors and out
- Household uses and hints — more than 100 home uses for vinegar, including polishing chrome, prolonging the life of cut flowers, and preparing natural beauty treatments
