{"id":106,"date":"2007-11-27T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/27\/readers-question-mother-of-vinegar-and-goat-milk\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T08:47:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T15:47:46","slug":"readers-question-mother-of-vinegar-and-goat-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/27\/readers-question-mother-of-vinegar-and-goat-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader&#8217;s Question: Mother of vinegar and goat milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hi Jackie. Two more questions that I am sure you know the answer to. 1. when I get to the bottom of my cider vinegar, the &#8220;mother&#8221; is there waiting for something, but I don&#8217;t know what. Is there some use for it? or do I just throw it away? 2. the receipe for pumkin pie calls for evapo milk. I am running over with goats milk and hate to go buy inferiour canned stuff. Can I just use whole milk , maybe with part cream instead of evapo ? Thanks a bunch. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gail Erman<br \/>\nPalisade, CO<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nThere are many various health claims about how beneficial nibbling  on bits of the mother of vinegar is for you; I really don&#8217;t buy into  that.\u00a0 Not that I think it&#8217;s bad for you, but a lot of claims are  over-rated.\u00a0 To sell a product, usually.\u00a0 Unless you&#8217;re going to  make your own vinegar, I&#8217;d just add the mother to the compost  pile.\u00a0 If you want to try making your own cider vinegar, you can use  a bit of the mother to &#8220;start&#8221; your new vinegar because it contains  the correct yeasts and bacteria to acidify your &#8220;hard cider&#8221;, making  it turn into vinegar.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can use goat milk in place of evaporated milk.\u00a0 I just use  a little less or add one more egg to ensure that the filling sets up  nice and firm; you don&#8217;t want soup!\u00a0 I hardly ever use evaporated  milk, but most folks don&#8217;t have their own dairy  animals.\u00a0 Unfortunately.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something about eating a  Thanksgiving meal where where nearly everything on the feast table  has been raised on your own homestead.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t buy that.\u00a0 For any price!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Jackie. Two more questions that I am sure you know the answer to. 1. when I get to the bottom of my cider vinegar, the &#8220;mother&#8221; is there waiting for something, but I don&#8217;t know what. Is there some use for it? or do I just throw it away? 2. the receipe for pumkin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}