Making your own shrubs is very easy and the flavor possibilities are endless. Shrubs are becoming a popular mixer for cocktails and mocktails because they are no-cook, simple to create, and a great first preserve. Here are my favorite 5 Easy Shrub Recipes for you!
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5 Easy Shrub Recipes
Strawberry Pineapple Shrub Recipe
Strawberry Pineapple shrub is an easy preserve that is a perfect cocktail mixer and it elevates sparkling water infinitely. The vinegar and sugar combined with the fruit make a bright and flavorful syrup with very little effort and this is the perfect shrub for beginners because it is simple to make.
In case you are new to the shrub game, shrubs are a very simple type of preserve where fruit or vegetable are preserved in sugar and vinegar on your countertop. If you love the idea of saving a little fruit in a jar on your counter in under 10 minutes for use in cocktails, sparkling water, salad dressing, yogurt, and more.
Rhubarb Pineapple Balsamic Shrub
Rhubarb is one of my favorite veggies. I love the color, the flavor, and how delicious it is in a pie, crisp, and canned into jam or syrup. It is pretty easy to get 1 3/4 cup chopped rhubarb; even a new gardener can cultivate this amount. It is also available in grocery stores. Just be sure to be careful with the leaves as they are poisonous.
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Blood Orange Balsamic Shrub is a shrub I have crafted with balsamic vinegar. The other recipes I have shared use apple cider vinegar and that is a much more mild tasting vinegar. Balsamic is bold both in flavor and in color and when added with blood oranges and plain white sugar it creates a strong but delicious shrub. This mixes so, so well with unflavored sparkling water and in a cocktail with bourbon.
Apple Shrub is a great recipe because it takes just one apple of any variety, is fun to spice up with cinnamon or a few dissolved red-hot candies, and mixed with whiskey. It is a cocktail that will transition your beverage game right into autumn.
These are my favorite recipes to get a newbie in the shrub world started. If you want to get ALL my shrub recipes and complete instruction and my pro tips in ONE spot, check out my ebook,
Shrubology: Refreshing Homemade Fruit and Vinegar Syrups for Cocktails
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Happy Cocktailing, Wildflowers!
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