Vinegar By A Quick Process

Vinegar may be mada in a very short time by a sort of filtering procesa tfaat can be handled by any person of ordinary ingennity. A large barrel has a perforated sbelf fitted in a few inches below the top. From the holes fall ends of pack thread, whicb are knotted at the upper end so that they may not be drawa entirely througb. Glass tubes are fixed i the shelf as air vents. The lower edge 01 the barrel is filled with holes placed stbout six inches above the bottom, and a siphon carries off the liquid that accumulates below this point. Diluted alcoholic liquor, slightly sweetened ■with honey or with extract of malt, is slowly dripped throngh the holes in the shelf and rnns throngh beechwood shavings that have previously been steeped in good vinegar. The liqnor, which should be kept at a temperature of 75 to 85 degrees F. , filters down throngh the threads and over the shavings to the bottom of the barrel, whence it runs over throngh the siphon. After awhile the temperature in the barrel rises to about 100 degrees F., the chemical action going on meanwhile. It is necessary to pour the liquor again and again through the generator before it ifl satisfactory. From three or fonr to half dozen filterings are nsnally snfficient, though more are sometimes required, depending a good deal on the quality of the materials and the temperature at storting. -