"Blair P. Houghton" wrote in message
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Steve Ritter wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:10:23 +1200, Daisy
Interjected.. :

Can anyone on the group please suggest a viable alternative for rice
wine vinegar when creating sushi rice.

It's going to be almost impossible to tell the difference if you took
regular white vinegar, and added a small amount of sugar. Some people do
use vinegar and add a bit of Sake. Any will do.

I was just looking for sugar content in rice wine vinegar,
because I didn't think there was any, and came upon a URL
to a fairly precise su-meshi recipe:

http://member.nifty.ne.jp/maryy/eng/shari2.htm

The added sugar is going to be the major sweetness component.

I was kind of surprised how little mirin is in there.
I thought that was where most of the sweetness came from.
Makes me wonder if this recipe is standard.

It'd be interesting to taste sushi made with different vinegars.

The standard traditional sushi rice is made with rice vinegar, sugar, and a
pinch of salt. That's all.


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