Info
- Preparation Time: 30 minutes
- Sugar Content: 250 grams
- Makes approximately 400 ml
- 1 Serving = approximately 25-30 ml
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups cherries, stoned and halved
- 1/2 cup white wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup Estragon wine vinegar
Instructions
- Wash the cherries in a fruit cleanser first, before halving and pitting them.
- Add the fruit to a bowl and add the sugar. Mix well, cover and refrigerate.
- Leave for three days, stirring each day to combine the sugar with the fruit juice, mashing the fruit with a wooden spoon to extrude as much juice as possible.
- After three days strain off the fruit pulp and put to one side. (Check out my fruit leather instructions on how to use this pulp to make fruit leather)
- Add the vinegar and mix well.
- Strain again through muslin before adding to a glass bottle.
- Store in the fridge. It will improve in flavour over the next few days and should be ready to drink in about a week.
Benefits
- The cider vinegar content can help to lower cholesterol and triacylglycerol levels while optimizing liver function
- Recent studies suggest that 15 ml to 30 ml of vinegar daily could help obese people lose weight faster, shrink waist circumference, and lower body-fat mass and triglyceride levels.
- Greek scientists have documented apple cider vinegar’s ability to help lower glucose levels in diabetic patients.
- Fruit shrubs can help to increase the fruit intake in your daily diet
- Shrubs can preserve fruit syrups for long periods of time without the need for refrigeration
Cautions
Shrubs made with sugar will have high sugar levels however consider that:
- A 350 ml can of cream soda contains 49 grams of sugar
- A 350 glass of cherry shrub contains 16 grams of sugar
It is also possible to reduce the sugar content by using substitutes such as stevia or honey.
