Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar from Apple Scraps
After a nice family day of apple picking, you don’t want any pieces to go to waste. You can turn those plentiful apple scraps into delicious homemade apple cider vinegar. This is a perfect fermentation project for beginners. The peel, core, seeds, and all can be included to make the vinegar. Here is the recipe I used to start my Apple Cider Vinegar from apple scraps.
You can use scraps for this recipe but they should still be in good condition. Rotten, moldy, or apples treated with pesticides should not be used. A good rule of thumb when preserving food is that the quality won’t improve after preservation, which is why it is important to start with high-quality ingredients.
Apple Cider Vinegar Uses
- Drizzle your apple cider vinegar over a salad for a delicious homemade dressing.
- Combine tomato paste, sugar, molasses, spices, and apple cider vinegar for a delicious homemade barbecue sauce.
- Use as the vinegar in marinades and pickling juice for unique flavors.
- Take apple cider vinegar as a morning shot to aid digestion and help wake you up without caffeine.
- Deep clean your hair or locs using 50% diluted solution to wash your hair.
- Use 50% diluted as a face toner for easy homestead skin care.
- Boil down a cup for a batch of wonderful Apple Cider Donuts.
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A hallmark homesteading trait for efficient home cooking is using scraps to create new products. Home cooking is not loaded with as much grease, salt, and sugar as processed and restaurant foods but that does not mean it has to be bland or boring! Making vinegar can be done from many different types of fruits, creating products you will not otherwise see in modern American grocery stores. Making your own allows you to create unique flavor profiles and bring your home cooking to the next level.
Processing food scraps to get more out of your cooking is a habit you can build to live a homestead lifestyle no matter where you are starting your journey. It has the added benefit of reducing the waste on your homestead. Here are more ideas to repurpose those valuable food scraps:
- Save the bones from your leftover meat dinners to create a nutritious and flavorful broth.
- Those same bones can then be dehydrated and crushed into bone meal for your garden, a double feature!
- Save and add the vegetable scraps you accumulate when you start home cooking regularly to create a vegetarian broth. You can also add these to your meat broth for extra flavors. You can freeze them while you build up enough to create a broth.
- Dehydrate onions and garlic peels, then crush finely for homemade cooking spices.
- Throw lemon peels in the garbage disposer to freshen up your kitchen sink.
Not only is it more efficient to use up all parts of your food, it’s also more environmentally conscious. Check out this article for more accessible changes you can make TODAY to start living a homestead lifestyle without spending any extra money.
