Fresh Fruit Shrub Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What kind of vinegar do you use for shrubs? ›

White or red wine vinegar, champagne vinegar, even a bit of balsamic vinegar make for special shrub combinations. Lastly, you can use any variation of sugar you prefer—give demerara sugar or raw honey a try. You've prepared your shrub…

Blueberry & Mint Classic Shrub

Packed with blueberries' antioxidants, fiber, potassium and vitamin C, this shrub maintains the integrity of the fruit to help lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood, decreasing the risk of heart disease.

For the co*cktail:

Measure and add 1 ½ ounces of Cooper's Mark Bourbon, 1 ounce of your apple shrub* and 1 ounce of apple cider to a glass with ice. Top with soda water and stir to combine.

Our shrubs will keep for 24 months unopened and unrefrigerated (see best by date on bottle). Once you open them, we do recommend keeping them in the fridge. They should be good for another 9-12 months once you open them but let's hope you need more before then!

How Long Does A Shrub Last In The Fridge? Filled and tightly sealed in a jar, shrubs last about 6 months in the refrigerator if used sparingly. With more frequent use, similar to other condiments that are kept refrigerated, shrubs last 6-8 weeks.

Just wash and dry the fruit, add it to the jar and then top with room-temperature vinegar. Let this one infuse in the fridge for 2–3 weeks, then strain out the fruit before using. Roots and aromatics. Ingredients like ginger, galangal, lemongrass, and turmeric are high-reward additions, bringing intense aroma.

Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar and Spices in Shrubs

Apple cider vinegar has been shown to have a number of health benefits including: enhancing weight loss. stabilizing blood sugars. lowering cholesterol.

“The beauty of shrubs is not just that they're simple to make at home, and form the basis of beautiful fruity drinks, but that the combination of live, unpasteurised fruit and the probiotic goodness of apple cider vinegar has huge benefits for your gut health.

Shrubs are mixers, which means they're an ingredient in a drink, not something you would normally drink on its own. Luckily, drinking shrubs are versatile, so they pair well with lots of other ingredients. Overall, we recommend using a 1:5 ratio of shrub to another (or several) ingredient(s).

In terms of mixed drinks, shrub is the name of two different, but related, acidulated beverages. One type of shrub is a fruit liqueur that was popular in 17th and 18th century England, typically made with rum or brandy and mixed with sugar and the juice or rinds of citrus fruit.

What is the difference between bitters and shrubs? ›

Bitters are made with a pure grain spirit inundated with bittering agents like fruit peels, spices, or funky stuff like bark or cassia. Tinctures act as straight-up botanical, fruit, or vegetable infusions without any bitterness. A shrub adds sugar to fruit juice and uses vinegar to cut the sweetness.

Store in a cool dark place. We have never known of shrub to go bad in storage; however, it will do the body more good if it is used rather than stored. Use it within one year. Recipe from The Creative Herbal Home by Susan Belsinger and Tina Marie Wilcox.

Have you ever sipped a shrub? Not the bush out in your front lawn, but a fruit syrup, preserved with vinegar and mixed with water or alcohol to make a tangy, refreshing beverage.

I see no reason not to. You may notice slight flavor changes over time, but that's also true if you are storing the shrub in the fridge or preserved sugary fruit preparations at room temperature.

Vinegar as an herbicide: White vinegar which is about 5% acetic acid and does a nice job of burning the tops of plants, but not their roots – so a larger weed will live right through a spray even though it will look bad right after the spray. You can buy 20% acetic acid.

You have to be careful when spraying it around certain plants as it may be harmful to some, but when used on those pesky hard-to-kill weeds, they will disappear in two to three days' time. Combine a gallon of white vinegar, one cup of salt, and a couple tablespoons of dish soap to get the job done.

Vinegar is used as a contact herbicide. It scorches the foliage on whatever it hits. It will not kill shrubs, but can burn any leaves it is sprayed on.