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Sparkling Peach Shrub
Created by Chef Ally
Ripe summer peaches steeped with honey and raw apple cider vinegar, then lengthened with sparkling water into a drink that captures stone fruit season in every effervescent sip.
A shrub is fruit preserved in vinegar, one of the oldest ways to hold onto summer. Before refrigeration, farmers and cooks used this method to extend the harvest, and what they discovered still holds: the combination of ripe fruit, sweetness, and acid creates something greater than its parts.
Peaches are made for this treatment. At their peak, they are so fragrant and juicy that they need almost nothing. The honey draws out their liquid, the vinegar brightens and preserves it, and what you have at the end is a concentrate that tastes like the best day at the market.
Every meal is a meaningful choice, and so is every drink. This shrub connects you to the farmer who grew the peaches, the beekeeper who tended the hive, the season itself. Mixed with sparkling water over ice, it becomes a celebration of what is here right now, which is the whole point.
Ingredients
ripe peaches
Quantity
2 pounds (about 6 medium)
at peak ripeness
raw local honey or organic cane sugar
Quantity
1 cup
raw apple cider vinegar
Quantity
1 cup
with the mother
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| ripe peachesat peak ripeness | 2 pounds (about 6 medium) |
| raw local honey or organic cane sugar | 1 cup |
| raw apple cider vinegarwith the mother | 1 cup |
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