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Your cupboard is probably more Irish than you realise. Tinned tomatoes, soda bread mix, a jar of something tart, good butter, porridge oats, and maybe a bottle of HP sauce tucked behind everything else. It works. It's a well-stocked Irish kitchen, and there's nothing wrong with it.
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Apple cider vinegar's uses go well past the salad bowl: it's a marinade, a deglazing splash for the pan, the base of a quick pickle, and the morning tonic everyone's heard about. Most bottles in Irish kitchens only ever do the first of these before going back to the cupboard for months. This guide covers all of it, including two genuinely Irish-made bottles worth knowing, plus a few uses that have nothing to do with food at all.
To drink apple cider vinegar, dilute it first. Skip that step and nothing else about it works: not the taste, not the routine, and not whether you stick with it past week one. Usually that means one to two tablespoons in a large glass of water. That's the part everyone already half-knows. What's rarely answered is the rest of it, the bit where you're standing in your kitchen wondering whether it's meant to be hot or cold, before food or after, and why your first attempt tasted nothing like the version your friend swears by.
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