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The Best 50 Flavored Oils and Vinegars

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I bought this book for my father for father's day because he is a vinegar fanatic. I thought it was a book on the top 50 vinegars you could buy, but it isn't that. It is a book on how to make what the author considers the best flavored vinegars and oils. I was sort of disappointed, but after glancing through the book with my dad we found that the recipes sound really good. We are getting excited about trying out a few of the recipes for our own personal use. We even think that once we get it under control we may be able to use them as gifts to friends. We hope they taste as good as they sound and look. Even though it wasn't exacty what I expected it turned out okay, and the variety of recipes from vanilla oil to fruit vinegar will keep my dad experimenting for a while.

To start with, this book does have some very good recipes. However, I bought it before Christmas because I wanted to give oils and vinegars as gifts. The book advises against leaving in herbs and other food in the containers. So while they may taste good, they aren't very visually appealing. Also this book is very very small... I'd say a little bit larger than the palm of my hand, I thought the book would be larger with pictures.

I bought this book to learn more about oil infusion recipies. Not only does it have a good amount of interesting ones to try, but it also has great ones for vinegar infusions as well. I have made several batches already with fresh herbs from my garden and they have been great. This books also contains lots of information on how to's and safety as well.

A good little book packed with useful recipies and tips!

Don't buy this booklet if it's to be a gift -- Get the Kleinberg book instead, which is a real book, and very beautiful with very good oil, vinegar and food recipes and plenty of photos. The 50 receipes here (a few more oils than vinegars) look ok, but this booklet is just very small and extremely plain. Pretty scary, too, with all the botulism warnings. This little booklet required more than a month to arrive from Superior (actually direct from the publisher), despite it being listed as "in stock", and there was never any tracking. When it finally got here, it was a bit of a disappointment -- We waited all that time for this? If you still must have it, the publisher is Bristol in San Leandro, California, and the booklet has a much lower price printed on it.