FRC: Shrubs, flavored vinegars, frozen flavor cubes, SodaStream

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colleenmomof2

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Looking for ways to capture summer ripe fruits to use in SodaStream. Anyone have any ideas or recipes that they have used, please? Colleen

 
I make a fresh ginger/sugar syrup for ginger ale(more)

I made the medium sugar syrup , let ginger bits (leftover bits will work and the ones that are too hard to peel) infuse in the hot syrup.
Drain and refrigerate.
I'd take the juice of the summer fruits, and do the same.
Even using small slices, etc,since you will be adding AFTER the water has gone through the Soda Stream.
Lemons, stone fruit slices, cucumbers, etc can be floated in the carbonated water and will flavor it.

 
Definitely try the shrubs...

I've been going nuts with them. It's easy. 1 part each of sugar, fruit, and vinegar. After several weeks, strain the fruit out.

This was the old-timey way the pioneers preserved fruit juices for winter use to flavor cooking and drinks. It was the citrus "sweet and sour" in punches and drinks when lemons weren't available, the vinegar subbing for the citrus and the fruit giving a whole new flavor dimension.

One of my favorites so far: Cherry Disposition
I re-created this at home after tasting it at one of the downtown restaurants serving up craft cocktails. Shrubs are in big time.

Cherry Disposition
3 tablespoons blackcherry shrub
3 white peppercorns, crushed, or equivalent of freshly ground
2 oz. Hendrick's Gin

In a shaker filled with ice, combine, shake for at least 30 seconds, serve neat in chilled/frozen stemmed-cocktail/gimlet glass.

AMAZING!!!

I've also got a plum shrub going that is out of this world. Also have blueberry, orange, and peach in process.

 
I also have a soda syrup recipe book around here someplace...

It has all sorts of wild flavors to make syrups to use with your soda stream. The "Mockter Pepper" is a dead on rip off of Dr. P. I'll look it up and run some of them by you.

 
Thank-you, Richard! I would love to have your recipes

I'm starting with blueberry and raspberry but looking forward to much experimentation. Colleen

 
see, this is how unsophisticated I am. I thought *shrubs* were bitters made from...shrubs.

You know, as in rhododendron bitters, boxwood bitters, oleander bitters (oh, that one would be murder.)

Welcome to Marilyn's World, where any noun can be misconstrued, misused and made to walk the streets of my mind.

 
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