Recipe Cherry pit vinegar

 Recipe Cherry pit vinegar (with many thanks to Laura for sharing!)

Laura says her cherry pit vinegar is easy & cheap to make and it tastes like a wine vinegar with a hint of cherry flavour. It's a deep, clear, red and is gorgeous (better than the pic).

She used Morello cherries for this but any cherry or other stone fruit pits will work to make vinegar.

Ingredients:

1 cup of cherry pits (freshly removed from cherries with some flesh still attached) 

2 cups water

1/4 cup sugar

1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (or any live vinegar as a starter)

Method:

Put the cherry pits in a large glass jar

Add the water, sugar and apple cider vinegar

Cover with cloth & rubber band and sit on kitchen counter (anywhere out of direct sunlight) to ferment

Stir daily for about 3 weeks

Sieve into bottle and set out of sunlight (Laura didn't seal the bottle because it was still clearly fermenting)

Decant, leaving behind any sediment after another few weeks (timing is pretty flexible)

It is ready to use when it tastes like vinegar (Laura says hers is good about 6 weeks after starting).