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Vinegar is used to preserve a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, along with meats, fish and eggs. Preserving food with vinegar is called pickling. A short list of foods â¦ that are commonly pickled would include pigs' feet, herring, beets, cucumbers, onions, olives, peppers, peaches, pears, and watermelon rind.o preserve food the pioneers used salt, and vinegar and they could have sun dried the food and they might have had root cellars to keep the preserved food edible and cool.
How to Make Distilled Vinegar. Distilled vinegar is very popular! Used daily in over 300 applications, from food preparation and weight control, to a household cleaner or as an herbicide in gardening. Further uses exist in laboratory and pharmaceutical applications, and as a medicinal remedy. In making distilled vinegar, the alcoholic fermentation process combines cultures of mother of vinegar, a gelatinous, harmless vinegar bacterium found in older bottles of vinegar, with alcohol to produce vinegar. The bacteria cause the alcohol to turn to acetic acid and water.