Creative Drinking

A toast with a "Christmas Shrub"

A delightful, unexpected Xmas cocktail. We started out with some old-school egg nog and have moved onto this. A traditional shrub recipe includes apple cider vinegar and sugar, and hopefully mixed with alcohol. This particular shrub is made with fresh ginger and mixed with Prosecco and a splash of pomegranate juice. Yum.

Ginger Shrub:

• 1/2 cup ginger, finely minced
• 1 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup Sugar or artificial sweetener if you must.

Heat the ginger and vinegar in a saucepan over high heat until just boiling. Remove and let cool for 24 hours. Strain the ginger out of the liquid but don't press the liquid out of the ginger.

Put the liquid in saucepan and add the sugar. Bring to boil then simmer for a few minutes.

Let cool then serve with your favorite spirit. (Gin, rum, vodka.) I chose prosecco as the ratio is approx a small amount of shrub to a large amount of booze. It's not nice to be tanked on Christmas.

There is talk of this being served with Sprite instead of alcohol. I haven't quite put the pieces together yet of why anyone would consider that.