Last September I harvested a bunch of apples. I think the varieties were Red and Golden Delicious and a few Granny Smith.  I dehydrated them and canned a bunch too. I made apple pie filling and canned that. I’ll put a recipe for that here soon.

With the peelings and cores I made apple cider vinegar.  It’s super simple. I filled a 2 quart jar with the peels and cores, covered them with pure water and covered it with a piece of paper towel held down with a canning ring.

I left this in my herbal cabinet for 2 1/2 months, checking it every couple of weeks.  A few days ago I saw that it was developing a mother!  Then today I removed the mother to a bottle and strained out the vinegar into the bottle with the mother. That’s all there was to it.

It smells delicious. I’m so happy to have 2 quarts of this wonderful vinegar.  Here are a couple of photos. I hope you will try to make apple cider vinegar the next time you peel a few apples!

You can just barely see the mother in the bottom of the bottle