I hadn’t planned on this post, but as mentioned in my previous post, I am on a cleaning /decluttering mission.  This weekend just gone I was on a mission to clean out the larder…  You know those jars of goodies that have been preserved/canned but never used – they need to go?  So with much welcomed help from Gary, all jars have been emptied, cleaned and ready for refilling.

It was during this purge that I reached for my vinegar jars, believing that the much neglected mothers would have all dried out and shrivelled up.  Ughh the task ahead to clean those jars!  Then, low and behold, I found something alive… Ugly?  Absolutley! – but I was sooooo excited!

I discovered that the sherry in the jar I’d started twelve months or so ago, and although dramatically reduced, it hadn’t totally dried up – and there sitting on top was the mother, alive and well.  Did I mention that I was sooooo excited!  I couldn’t believe it.  I immediately took the jar to the kitchen, took out the little coffee pot and filter, purchased specifically for this purpose, and started to strain the vinegar away from the mother.

Filtering the sherry vinegar

Filtered sherry vinegar

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