Why buy luxurious energy drinks that could send you to the
hospital when the perfect energy supplement is right in your kitchen closet?
Apple cider vinegar, that old standby, is recognized for its ability to add a
number of pep to your step.
Beverages flavored with vinegar have been accepted on and
off for thousands of years. While you may not want to try eating the stuff
straight—the acid can irritate your throat and digestive tract—you can dilute
it with water or seltzer to make a healthy, invigorating drink or turn it into
a fancier refreshment called a shrub or a switchel. These drinks are the
perfect way to enjoy the physical condition benefits of apple cider vinegar any
time of the day or nighttime.
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The most healthy type of apple cider vinegar to use is an
organic, unpasteurized, unfiltered variety, such as Bragg's Raw Apple Cider
Vinegar, because it not only is a rich basis of minerals and other nutrients,
but also contains beneficial probiotic bacteria that can boost your resistant
system.
If you have a foundation of fresh cider, you can even create
your own apple cider vinegar, a fun late-summer or fall product for the
hard-core foodie. But purchase vinegar is a great base for these beverages.
Here are 7 recipes to try:
Plain Apple Cider Vinegar Health Drink
2 teaspoons raw, unpasteurized apple cider vinegar
2 cups water
unite and serve. Often recommended as a boost before each
meal in folk remedies to lessen just about anything that ails you.
Honey-Ade
This flippantly sweet energy drink harnesses the power of
raw honey, which can help with the symptoms of seasonal allergies and give you
an vigor boost.
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon raw darling
2 cups water (warm)
unite and stir until the honey dissolves. serve up it cold
as a sweet-tangy summertime drink or sip it hot help calm a scratchy throat.
Haymaker's Punch (Switchel)
I first encounter this drink in one of Laura Ingalls
Wilder's "Little House" books, as "ginger water," which her
mother made to send to the men in the hot field cutting hay by hand. It tastes
like still ginger beer, and the ginger helps keep it from upsetting your stomach
the way drinking too much cold water at once might on a hot day. (Here are 7
more astonishing health benefits of eating ginger.)
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon honey (or any other sweetener of your choice)
2 cups water
¼ teaspoon new grated gingerroot or a pinch of dry earth
ginger
join and stir until the honey dissolves. Serve cold as a
sweet-tangy summertime drink. If you make this often, you can save yourself a
number of time by making a honey-ginger syrup to keep in the fridge and use
that instead of mixing up the ingredient each time.
See the video below for an straightforward way to peel fresh
ginger:
Switchel Fizz
replacement unflavored seltzer for plain irrigate in the
Haymaker's Punch switchel recipe.
Fruit Juice Shrub
Shrubs, also called eating vinegars, are flavorful, tangy,
and magnificently refreshing, made from a fruity vinegar syrup mixed with water
or seltzer. They harken back to the Colonial era when vinegar syrups were varied
with spirits to make cocktails—which you can also do (more on that below!).
Start by creation your vinegar-syrup shrub concentrate:
1 cup fruit juice
½ cup honey or 1 cup natural sugar (use more or less,
depending on the sweetness of the juice and your taste)
1 cup apple cider vinegar
1. unite and store in your refrigerator in a covered jar.
You can heat the fruit juice and sugar on the stove to help the sugar dissolve,
but don't add the vinegar until after that's refrigerated or you'll kill off
the happy little probiotics that make the vinegar so well.
2. To build your shrub, combine 1 part think with 3 or 4
parts cold water or unflavored seltzer.
Fresh Fruit Shrub
Similar to making shrub deliberate with fruit juice, this
slower method allows more complex flavors to develop, and you can use a wider mixture
of fruits and spices for truly exotic flavors. Plus, it's a great way to use
the appetizing whole fruits that are in season.
1 to 2 cups chop ripe fruit (peaches, berries, even rhubarb,
or a mixture)
½ cup honey or 1 cup organic sugar (use more or less,
depending on the sweetness of the fruit and your taste)
1 cup apple cider vinegar
Optional: minced lemongrass, fresh mint, basil, a cinnamon
stick, or what on earth spice suits the fruit and your taste.
1. unite in a large glass jar, cover loosely (don't tighten
the lid), and let it sit at room temperature for two days. Then refrigerate for
a couple of weeks to let the flavors leach out into the fluid.
2. Strain and store in the refrigerator in a covered jar. To
make a shrub, coalesce one part concentrate with 3 or 4 parts cold water or
unflavored seltzer.
Shrubbery Cocktails
A shrub think, with its balance of acid and sweetness, can
be the perfect way to add flavor to your favorite liquor without adding excess sugariness.
(They may not boost your energy though!) Creative bartenders are crafting astonishing
shrub syrups (rosemary-pineapple, strawberry-basil, lime-chili, and
watermelon-white pepper are some combinations I've seen) and combine them with
rum, vodka, whisky, or even craft beers to fashion name cocktails. If fancy
drinks are your passion, making your own shrub concentrate can open up a new world
of almost unlimited potential. Here's one basic shrub-cocktail recipe:
Combine 1 part bush concentrate with 3 to 4 parts gleaming
wine (dry to sweet, depending on your taste). Garnish with a slice of fresh
fruit, a curl of citrus zest, or a sprig of fresh herb to match or harmonize
the shrub's flavor.
