For a satisfying thirst quencher, make your own shrub - a.k.a. drinking vinegar. You take a couple cups of fruit, lightly mash it and mix with sugar, let it sit for a couple days and then rinse the fruit/sugar combo with vinegar using a sieve to strain it. 2-3 ounces of shrub over ice diluted with a couple cups of plain seltzer water is pretty satisfying - Mrs. Duck and I have adopted it as our warm-weather evening cooler of choice. You can control the sweetness via dilution as the vinegar, makes it more complex and not as reliant on sweetness. Look up "switchel" or "haymakers punch" - dates back to colonial times here, but has roots way, way back in ancient Persia. Happy to send a recipe if you have a favorite fruit you like. Can mix fruits with herbs too.
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For a satisfying thirst quencher, make your own shrub - a.k.a. drinking vinegar. You take a couple cups of fruit, lightly mash it and mix with sugar, let it sit for a couple days and then rinse the fruit/sugar combo with vinegar using a sieve to strain it. 2-3 ounces of shrub over ice diluted with a couple cups of plain seltzer water is pretty satisfying - Mrs. Duck and I have adopted it as our warm-weather evening cooler of choice. You can control the sweetness via dilution as the vinegar, makes it more complex and not as reliant on sweetness. Look up "switchel" or "haymakers punch" - dates back to colonial times here, but has roots way, way back in ancient Persia. Happy to send a recipe if you have a favorite fruit you like. Can mix fruits with herbs too.