Cucumber Shrub

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Shrubs were a colonial-era means of preserving caller produce, typically utilizing vinegar but sometimes a tone specified arsenic rum. Vinegar-based shrubs tin supply a delicious and refreshing nonalcoholic portion enactment for summer; they tin besides beryllium mixed with spirits and sparkling vino for lower-alcohol cocktails.

This is simply a savory-leaning shrub (and you could marque it much truthful by reducing the magnitude of sugar). For a nonalcoholic option, effort mixing it successful adjacent portions with h2o oregon soda and floating caller cucumber slices successful the drink. But it besides works beautifully with gin, particularly Hendrick's.

The shrub tin beryllium refrigerated oregon kept astatine a chill country somesthesia for 6 months.

Ingredients

Adapted from “Shrubs: An Old-Fashioned Drink for Modern Times,” by Michael Dietsch (Countryman Press, October 2014).

Tested by M. Carrie Allan.