How to Make Your Own Shrub Tonics
Post-holiday season, we’re reaching for refreshing tonics made with local shrubs—sweet and tart concoctions of fruit, sugar, and vinegar that stimulate the appetite while slaking thirst.
Most shrub recipes use a 1:1:1 ratio of fruit, sugar, and vinegar. Macerate acidic fruits like citrus, berries, apples, pears, or stone fruit with white sugar and add your choice of vinegar. Apple cider, champagne, and white wine vinegars work best.
Besides being delicious, these tonics recipes from Nostrum Shrubs are said to contain healthy ingredients that aid digestion and fortify the immune system.
Grapefruit Rosemary Shrub
Tropical Cold Buster Tonic
Ginger-Cranberry Mocktail Tonic
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