Has anyone here used cane vinegar for their sauce. I occasionally buy a bottle of Busha Browne's Pukka hot pepper sauce. It's Scotch Bonnets with cane vinegar. It's Jamaican. It's one of my favorite store bought sauces. I'll have to go to Chinatown in downtown Oakland to buy it from a specialty store tomorrow. We'll see what happens, I guess.
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preservation Cane Vinegar?
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The only USA made one is Steen's, and you'll have to get it on the internet. Don't think it's sweet, no vinegar is unless the fermentation process is halted early on purpose.
thehotpepper.com said:
What would you think using it to make a sauce with? I have no idea. I'm just going off ingredients from a store bought hot sauce bottle. I think I'll just wing it and buy it and make sauce and let you all know what happens!!! I'll need lot's of beer for this one!
I picked up a bottle of Carib Cane Vinegar. Made in Jamaica. Found it at a little store called Lucky Oriental Market in Downtown Oakland. Tons of Chili related products except for good ones like Bhut or Naga products! The vinegar has a really mellow almost sweet flavor to it. I like......thehotpepper.com said:
Sounds good for the right sauce. I like trying vinegars and pairing them with the right ingredients. I've always wanted to try Steen's. Yeah you got one from the Caribbean, they are popular there. If it's sweet they halted the fermentation process early before the sugars fully converted for that hint of sweetness. If they hadn't done that it wouldn't be sweet at all. Since it is pair it well. Good luck.
Steens Cane Vinegar is very good. It has a "musty, oakey" type flavor to it. Some of the sweetness does come through. I used it in a new sauce that I have been working on. The Musty flavor comes from the sugar grass they use to make it and the oakeyness comes from them ageing it in an oak barrel. It has a very unique flavor that you have to be careful when useing it. You really have to find other flavors that compliment it otherwise they just clash. There is a pleasant "sweet" aftertaste rather than that bite that other vinegars tend to have. My suggestion is to try it out and experiment with it, try different things you'll be surprised with what you come up with. Best part is its not real expensive either only $3.99 for 12 ounce size!!
Thanks, I never tasted Steen's, just heard it's good.
Hey Dyce, what flavors don't compliment it? I just got a big bag of scotch bonnets yesterday and was gonna whip up some sauce. This will be my first attempt with the cane vinegar and I don't want to screw it up. Bonnets are hard to come by where I live, until I'm picking them off my plants, which won't be until late July or August!!!
Yes Sir - now you are talking. Steens family in Abbeville Louisiana started with the best sugar cane syrup, I guess batches that turned sour went into the making of their cane vinegar.
Vinegar sites (2) http://www.simplycajun.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=62
http://www.steensyrup.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=STEENS&Product_Code=SS4
Steens Cane Syrup - you gotta try this on hot cakes or biscuts:
http://www.steensyrup.com/
A good cane vinegar should be a little sweet depending on what point they fermented the sugar at, brown sugar and molasses contain
components that will not ferment and should remain sweet throughout the process. I once made wine using brown sugar and black berries,
it was so sweet that you could have used it for pancake syrup! lol
components that will not ferment and should remain sweet throughout the process. I once made wine using brown sugar and black berries,
it was so sweet that you could have used it for pancake syrup! lol
DAMN YOU!!! I just went to the Steen's link and the first recipe was for the pheasant! Weird because I woke up this morning craving pheasant for some reason.......