Cranberry Vinegar

Name: Cranberry Vinegar
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 177 milliliters Champagne vinegar (6 percent acidity); 1 bag fresh or frozen cranberries; 1 sprig fresh thyme, leaves only; 1 pinch Pinch salt; 946 milliliters sugar; 2 vanilla beans, minced, or 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract; 237 milliliters water

Cranberry Vinegar requires around 1 hour and 40 minutes from start to finish. Watching your figure? This gluten free, fodmap friendly, and vegan recipe has 1104 calories, 0g of protein, and 1g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 3. If you have water, vanilla beans, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Put cranberries, syrup and salt in a pan and heat over high heat until cranberries begin to pop.

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Cranberries

Pop

Salt

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Frying Pan

Remove from heat, let cool and then puree in a blender.

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Blender

Add vinegar and taste for balance.

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Vinegar

Add more vinegar and thin with water if necessary. Strain through a fine strainer into a bowl or pitcher. Store in a clean jar or bottle (do not use metal lids or tops) and refrigerate. Keeps several weeks.

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Vinegar

Water

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Sieve

Bowl

Keep this syrup on hand to add to iced tea and other cold drinks or for poaching fruit. It does not need to be refrigerated. The vanilla is minced to make sure all its flavor is extracted into the syrup.

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Iced Tea

Vanilla

Fruit

Syrup

Put the sugar, water, vanilla beans, a pinch salt, and the thyme leaves in a pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Lower heat to a simmer and cook about 4 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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Vanilla Bean

Thyme

Sugar

Water

Salt

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Pot

Let cool. Puree syrup in a blender until vanilla beans are thoroughly chopped into the syrup. Strain through a fine strainer into a sterilized jar. If using vanilla extract instead of beans, add extract after the sugar syrup has cooled and pour into a jar. Seal tightly.

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Vanilla Extract