Walpolean reader Jill Robinson sends the following announcement of an interesting event coming up at Alyson's...
Alyson's Orchard Hosts Vinegar Making Workshop
Saturday July 29, 1006, 10am-noon, $15, registration required
Versatile vinegar has been praised for centuries around the world as healing medicine. It has long been said that vinegar can fight disease and
add years to your life. It is an effective food preservative and a useful household cleaner and sanitizer as well.
Vinegar is easy to make at home from left over red or white wine, or hard apple cider, using a culture (called the “mother”) saved from the previous batch. This workshop will teach you how.
Participants will be given a bit of “mother” to take home if they bring a wide mouth quart jar, 2/3 full of left over red or white wine, or hard apple cider. A tight fitting top is needed for transport, but a breathable cloth or napkin, held on by a rubber band will be substituted at home.
Our instructor has been making vinegar since the early 1990s when her aunt passed on a bit of her “mother.” She has a PhD in biology, and did
postdoc work in microbiology at Woods Hole.
The workshop is sponsored by the Hannah Grimes Localvore Project. You can read more about this summer long project to promote awareness of the importance of eating local food at http://www.hannahgrimes.com/localvore/index.html
For more information, or to register for the workshop, call Tiffany at Hannah Grimes, 352-5063.
