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Hello, in Nigella’s Luscious Vegan Gingerbread recipe, is it okay to use apple cider vinegar? The recipe states to use regular cider vinegar and I wanted to check if this is the same as apple cider? Thank you!
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Nigella's Luscious Vegan Gingerbread (from COOK, EAT, REPEAT) is, as the name implies, a vegan cake. As there are no eggs to leaven the cake it relies on the interaction of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) with an acid to make the cake rise. In this case the acid is (apple) cider vinegar.
If you are in the UK then apple cider vinegar is the type that is unfiltered and includes the "mother" (the substance that forms while the vinegar is fermenting) and regular cider vinegar is filtered and pasteurised. In the US apple cider vinegar is the description for both types of vinegar, but if it us unpasteurised and includes the mother then it is usually labelled as "raw" apple cider vinegar. Both types of vinegar are fine but the recipe mentions "regular" simply so that people don't think that they have to go out and specifically buy the raw/unfiltered type to make the cake.
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