Through the years, I’ve shared a couple of of my favourite recipes for shrubs right here on Pastime Farms. I’ve even shared a recipe for rhubarb shrub, in addition to a strawberry vanilla shrub, however by no means sooner than the mix of strawberry and rhubarb shrub.
As you’ll believe, this can be a successful combo. A refreshing strawberry rhubarb shrub is an effective way to make use of up a few of your rhubarb and contemporary strawberries which might be after all ripening right here in our northern gardens. I’m hoping you experience this recipe up to we do!
Yield: 3 to 4 cups completed shrub
Elements
- 2 general cups rhubarb and strawberries, chopped (contemporary or frozen). Discard inexperienced leaves of the rhubarb, as they’re toxic, and hull the berries.
- 2 cups white granulated sugar
- Days later: 2 cups natural apple cider vinegar (or different consuming vinegar of selection)
Instructions
Wash strawberries and rhubarb, doing away with any bruised or broken portions. Prep rhubarb and strawberries, and upload them to a blank quart jar. Pour in sugar. Wipe the rim of the jar with a blank dampened towel to take away any sugar or fruit juice, observe the canning jar lid, and tightly screw at the ring.
Shake the jar vigorously to combine the strawberries, rhubarb and sugar in combination.
Retailer the jar at room temperature, out of direct daylight. Permit the mix to macerate over a pair days till a thick syrup is made. A couple of instances consistent with day, shake the mix to hurry up the method (or you’ll use a blank spoon to stir smartly).
After two to 3 days, as soon as the sugar has dissolved and a syrup is made, use a high-quality mesh strainer to pressure out the solids, booking the syrup in a measuring cup. Use the again of a spoon to push out any extra syrup. As soon as strained, measure the quantity of syrup that used to be accrued and upload that very same quantity of vinegar to the syrup (it’s going to be 1.5 to two cups of vinegar), stir smartly to combine.
Retailer your strawberry rhubarb shrub in a blank, hermetic jar and refrigerate. Experience inside of a couple of months for easiest taste.
To Serve
Combine about one shot glass of the shrub aggregate with water or carbonated water. Serve over ice. Shrubs additionally make scrumptious and distinctive cocktail mixers.
Facet Notes
You’ll be able to additionally use brown sugar, coconut sugar, maple syrup or different sugar selection instead of white granulated sugar.
This system of shrub-making will also be carried out to any fruits-and-herb combos.
Don’t toss the strained-out fruit solids! They’re scrumptious combined into undeniable yogurt or oatmeal, or combined right into a smoothie.
This recipe used to be tailored from WECK Small-Batch Protecting (2018) with permission from Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.