Vinegar

Suspending fresh herbs in decorative bottles and covered with vinegar make delicious herbal vinegars. By making herbal vinegar you are preserving the taste of the fresh herbs. To make herbal vinegar with even more flavor use fresh herbs and spices. You can use dried herbs but it won’t be half as much fun and surely not as flavorful. Later you will see one of the favorite herbal vinegar recipes.

If you take the herbal vinegar and mix it with olive oil or safflower oil you will make an excellent salad dressing. Add a bit of the herbal vinegar to sauces or to mustards for a different taste. Put a couple of tablespoons into stock for poaching fish and it will make a delightful change.

To make herbal vinegar, wash and dry your fresh herbs thoroughly then pour warm vinegar, not hot, over them in the glass jar. Be sure that the fresh herbs are completely covered by the vinegar. Seal the jar and allow them to sit for a month or two to mingle the flavors. Do not allow it access to direct sun. Read more…

Vinegar has long been touted as a weight loss aid. It is practically calorie free and it seems like it would have a strong effect on the body in helping to melt away pounds.

There have been vocal advocates of vinegar as a weight loss aid. Among them are Japanese researchers who recently found that subjects who ate a very high fat diet who also ate lots of vinegar actually had 10% less body fat than those who ate the same diet without the vinegar.

Unfortunately, the Japanese study used mice, not humans. Animal research is important, but it is a stretch at best to assume that the same result would occur in humans. To approach the dosage used in this study, you would have to consume about 20 oz. of vinegar per day, a pretty unrealistic amount. Read more…

Here are top 10 reasons to use Raw Apple Cider Vinegar for your health. (However, don’t use anything but “Raw apple cider vinegar. Braggs is a great brand.)

1. Energy. Take 1 tablespoon, 2 times a day in 8 ounces to 16 ounces of water. This is especially helpful if you have a baby or little children… and you need the energy to keep up with them.

2. Bug bites. To take away the itching and the bites quickly, dab the bites with straight ACV or mix it with half water, half vinegar.

3. Slows down bleeding during menstrual cycle. To lessen the bleeding each period, take 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar in a glass of water… 2 times a day.

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