The Miracle of Vinegar: 150 easy recipes and uses for home, health and beauty
By Emma Marsden and Aggie MacKenzie
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150 simple ways to use this amazing, low cost ingredient. Cleaning, cooking and everything in between!
- Make delicious dips and marinades
- Soften your towels
- Do away with dandruff
- Descale your kettle
- Discover sumptuous slow roasts
- Tone greasy skin
- Freshen your beauty brushes
- Create the perfect pavlova
Brimming with tips, tricks and recipes for everything from ferments to fresheners, salad dressings to skincare. Let this book show you the true miracle of vinegar.
Whisked along with the no-nonsense, tongue-in-cheek voice of Aggie MacKenzie, of How Clean Is Your House? fame, you’ll soon discover the hundreds of uses for vinegar beyond being scrumptious sprinkled over your fish and chips!
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The Miracle of Vinegar - Emma Marsden
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An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019
Copyright © Aggie MacKenzie and Emma Marsden 2019
Aggie MacKenzie and Emma Marsden asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Ebook Edition © December 2018 ISBN: 9780008310585
To my gorgeous sons Rory and Ewan for their enduring patience, boundless creativity and sharing their brilliant recipe ideas with me.
— Aggie
Thanks to my mum for my culinary drive, to Kev for always tasting everything I’ve made (no matter what time of day) and to the rest of my family for their support.
— Emma
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
INTRODUCTION
THE HISTORY OF VINEGAR
TYPES OF VINEGAR
Which Vinegar When?
CLEANING TIPS
Kitchen
Bathroom
Laundry
Living Room
Other Ingenious Uses
HEALTH AND BEAUTY TIPS
Silky Skin Solutions
Treatments for Healthy-looking Hair
Pamper Feet and Hands
Tips and Tricks for Make-up Accessories
Soothing Cold Treatments
Ease Aches and Pains
Nasty Infections
Healthy From Inside Out
Give Your Body a Boost
And That’s Not All…
RECIPES
QUICK AND LIGHT MEALS
Use Vinegar to Poach Eggs
Rich Pickings From the Vegetable Drawer
Spiced Chickpeas for Fish, Chicken, Salad, Yogurt or Hummus
Hot Smoky Chicken for a Bun
One-pan Peanut Butter Noodles
Make the Most of Wizened Veg
MAINS
Friday Night Steak and Sides Two Ways
Special Slow-roasted Tomatoes
Braised Lamb With Rosemary and Red Wine
Five-hour Pulled Pork
Pork Vindaloo
Cheat’s Chicken Tikka
Duck With Walnuts
Three Ways With Raspberry Vinegar
Red Pepper, Chickpea and Harissa Dressing for Pan-fried Hake
Mullet Escabeche
Stuffed Courgettes Asian-style
SALADS
3 Classic (Ish) Salads and Their Dressings
A Simple Couscous Salad
Red Wine Vinegar Adds Zing to an Italian Salad
Making the Most of Preserved Tuna
DIPS AND SAUCES
Quick Dill Sauce for Smoked Fish
Homemade Hoisin-style Sauce
A Softer-tasting Aioli for Pan-fried Fish
One-minute Dips for Chips
A Canny Tip to Stretch an Avocado to Feed a Few More
Dipping Sauce for Spring Rolls and Dumplings
Classic Dressing for Oysters
SNACKS AND NIBBLES
Drinks Nibbles
Hot Salt and Vinegar Crisps
Cumin-spiced Nuts
Chilli-spiced Olives
The Beauty of Balsamic
Mushroom Toast Topper
Sherry Vinegar Mushrooms
DESSERTS
Sweet Raspberry Vinegar for Ice Cream and Drinks
Bring Out the Sweetness in Strawberries
Peaches With Verjus and Rosemary
Chocolate Sharing Mousse With Blueberries and Pecans
Golden Pavlova
BREAD AND BAKING
Chilli and Thyme Cornbread
Courgette and Carrot Loaf
Seeded Soda Bread
PICKLES AND PRESERVES
Red, White and Green Piccalilli
Pickled Pears With Star Anise and Ginger
Spiced Plums With Cinnamon, Juniper and Black Pepper
Super-quick Bowl of Chutney
About the Publisher
INTRODUCTION
Vinegar first came into my working life while I was at Good Housekeeping magazine in the early 1990s. I was director of the Institute and in this role I oversaw both the consumer testing and cookery departments. Each year, the January issue of the magazine carried a ‘Stains Special’… and vinegar always featured prominently.
When, in 2002, I was asked to do a screen test for a new television programme about cleaning, I drew on my GH experience and rattled off a list of all the kooky remedies I had picked up over the years, and again vinegar enjoyed multiple name-checks.
I passed the screen test, got the TV gig and co-presented How Clean is Your House? on Channel 4 from 2003 to 2009. My co-presenter and I generally used old-fashioned, inexpensive and homespun remedies for clean-ups – and very soon vinegar became the star of the show.
I am currently, about once a month, the ‘Midnight Expert’ guest on the BBC Radio 5 Live Phil Williams show. People call in and text between midnight and 1am with their cleaning quandaries – it’s strange but true, there is never any shortage of queries, even at that late hour. So often have I named vinegar as the solution to removing a stain that Phil, a good while back, instigated ‘Aggie’s Vinegar Bingo’, in which a big shout-out goes to the caller who, during the on-air hour, nails the nearest time to the V-word first getting a mention. Who knew vinegar could create so much buzz?
Vinegar is said to have been discovered by accident around 10,000 years ago, and it can be made from almost any fermentable item – such as wine, apples, pears, grapes, berries, beer and potatoes.
For over 2000 years, vinegar has been used to flavour and preserve foods, heal wounds and fight infections – as well as clean surfaces. There is some evidence that vinegar added to one’s diet will reduce the glucose response to a carbohydrate load both in healthy adults and in sufferers of diabetes. It has also been suggested that drinking a little vinegar each day is useful as a dietary aid because it imparts a feeling of fullness. Since I began working on this book I have been drinking two tablespoons of organic cider vinegar with a tiny squeeze of honey every morning. Who knows whether it’s doing me any good, but I am sure it won’t be doing me much harm either.
Both my sons are chefs in leading London restaurants and often use specialist vinegars for finishing dishes. Through them I have learned what a difference it can make and how to use it judiciously in my cooking.
It seemed natural that I should put my head together with that of my friend and former cookery editor colleague at Good Housekeeping, Emma Marsden, to come up with a book that combines my cleaning-with-vinegar expertise and her extensive culinary knowledge. Here is our – we hope – useful collection of tips, plus recipes that are, without exception, exciting, innovative and, importantly, straightforward. We hope you’ll enjoy them, together with beauty remedies and health hints – all using this humble yet important liquid in its many and various forms.
Aggie MacKenzie
THE HISTORY OF VINEGAR
The word vinegar comes from the French vin aigre, translated as sour wine, which accurately describes it. If you’ve ever left the dregs of an open bottle of wine for a few days and then attempted to drink the contents, only to be met with a sour taste, you’ve already started on the journey of vinegar-making. There are records of this magic ingredient being made as early as 5,000 BC in Babylon, and it’s thought that it was the result of a slipup while fermenting some wine. People cooking at that time experimented with this liquor, discovering that it could be used as both a condiment and ingredient.
Today it is a popular ingredient, produced commercially by either fast or slow fermentation. In fast fermentation, the liquid is oxygenated and the bacteria culture added. Slow fermentation is generally used for the production of specialised vinegars used in cooking; the culture of acetic acid bacteria grows on the surface of the liquid and fermentation evolves gradually over weeks or months and allows for the formation of a harmless slime made up of yeast and acetic acid