Wildcrafted Lilac Vinegar By capturing wild yeasts from blossoms and plants, you can harness the power of microbes to create this flavorful condiment in your home kitchen.
By Kirsten K. Shockey
To make vinegar, you can simply pour fresh juice into a wide-mouthed vessel, top it with a cloth, and let time and microbes happen. In my experience, though, this works perfectly about as often as it doesn’t work at all, most often because of harmless but undesirable surface yeasts or other unwelcome microbes. The microbes compete for the sugar and nutrients, and cause the process to stall or not begin.