13: Shrub

Name: Shrub
Yield: 2 cups
Ingredients: 1 cup Berries; 1 cup Sugar; 1 cup Red Wine OR Vinegar OR Apple Cider Vinegar

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Place berries or fruit in bowl
Cover with sugar and stir
Cover with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator until juice exudes from fruit and starts to combine with sugar to form syrup. This may take only 5 or 6 hours, or it may need a couple of days. A longer maceration won't harm anything, so feel free to leave it in fridge longer than it might need
Strain syrup from fruit. Press lightly on solids to express any remaining juice/syrup. Scrape remaining sugar into syrup
Add vinegar and whisk to combine
Pour through funnel into clean bottle. Cap and shake vigorously, and mark date on bottle. Store in refrigerator
Check periodically. Some sugar may remain undissolved for up to a few days. Shake to combine. After about a week, acids in juice and vinegar should dissolve sugar entirely

Yields 1 1/2 cups. To make a drink add one part Shrub to two-three parts seltzer water

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