Strawberry-Tea Shrub

Ingredients:
1 lb whole strawberries
1 loving cup apple tree cider vinegar
ii Tetley’s Black & Green blend tea bags
iii cups boiling water
1/4 loving cup liquid turbinado sugar


Directions:
Place the strawberries inwards a nonreactive container (like a drinking glass jar) together with comprehend amongst vinegar. If your strawberries are real large, yous may require to add together additonal vinegar to fully comprehend the berries. Refrigerate at to the lowest degree iii days together with upwards to 1 week.

The twenty-four hr stream earlier or at to the lowest degree 4 hours earlier yous would similar to brand the shrub, house ii teabags inwards a rut security container (I used a quart jar) together with pour inwards iii cups of boiling water. Allow to seep iii minutes. Remove the teabags together with discard. Allow the tea to come upwards to room temperature together with and then refrigerate until cold, virtually 4 hours.

Remove the fruit mixture from the refrigerator. Place a metallic sieve over a bowl together with crush the fruit amongst a tater masher until good mashed together with nearly smooth. Whisk the mashed pulp through the sieve until exclusively the pulp that absolutely volition non last forced through the sieve is left. Discard the pulp.

Stir the tea into the vinegar mixture. Add liquid turbinado sugar. Serve until dissolved. Taste together with add together additional liquid saccharide to taste, every bit needed. Pour the resulting liquid into a nonreactive container together with refrigerate until educate to use. Serve H2O ice cold, amongst or without ice.

Yield: virtually 1 1/2 quart (about 4-6 servings)

My thoughts:

Tetley invited me to practice an iced tea gulp using their novel Black & Green tea (as i powerfulness guess, it is a mix of dark together with greenish tea leaves) to win a run a jeopardy to instruct to England. To last a flake cheeky, I decided to brand a gulp that combines the English linguistic communication honey of tea amongst my favorite American colonial drink, the shrub. Shrubs are an early, DIY version of soft drinks together with are easily made at habitation past times combining fruit together with vinegar. There are several methods to making shrubs, exactly my favorite is made past times marinating raw fruit which I mean value gives it a fresher flavor than shrubs made past times cooking the fruit. It is best to purpose in-season, fresh strawberries for this shrub.

This is a lilliputian different than the shrub I made concluding year; the tea mellows the vinegar flavor together with dissimilar traditional shrubs, yous don't accept to add together H2O or social club soda to serve, it is pre-mixed together with educate to go! I made a small-scale batch (no room inwards the fridge) exactly this recipe tin last easily doubled or tripled or fifty-fifty quadrupled to brand a gulp for a crowd. It is a nifty introduction to shrubs for the vinegar drink-wary thank yous to the add-on of familiar iced tea. It is slightly bubbly thank yous to the calorie-free fermentation of the berries every bit they soaked inwards the vinegar. As for the flavor, it almost similar a brighter tasting, strawberry Arnold Palmer (or every bit nosotros telephone call upwards lemonade-iced tea drinks inwards Baltimore, a one-half together with half). Perfect for a hot summertime twenty-four hr stream inwards Baltimore or London!