Comments on: Raspberry Shrub with Hibiscus and Rose Hips

By: Jenny McGruther

Jenny McGruther — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:48:06 +0000

In reply to Julia. You sure can!

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:02:24 +0000

Can I use frozen raspberries?

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:27:53 +0000

Raspberry vinegar was the standard drink at harvest time when I was growing up in the fifties - staggered along behind my grandmother carrying big jugs into the field. Oats and wheat were still bound into sheaves and hand stooked back then on small farms in the east of England and it was hard, hot work. Earlier at hay time it was lemon barley water - hay was cut before raspberries were ripe I guess. I've never had a recipe - just layer up raspberries, sugar and acv until the jar is full. I use my grandmother's big glass sweet jars which have glass or plastic lids and date back to the thirties - I guess they hold a gallon or so each. I make drinking vinegars with most fruit but like to make them single fruit flavours and blend them if I'm bottling. Mostly we just pour the vinegar off the fruit as we use it - I don't bother to bottle it. When I strain the last dregs of a batch I've been working through for years what remains at the bottom of the jar is pretty much balsamic vinegar. Sugar extracts a purer flavour than honey, though I often add honey when we are drinking it

By: Veronica

Veronica — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:00:20 +0000

Excellent recipe!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:49:26 +0000

In reply to Charlotte Perkins. You can try and let us know how it goes.

By: Charlotte Perkins

Charlotte Perkins — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:19:49 +0000

Can you freeze fruit shrubs?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 19:09:13 +0000

Hi... yikes! I added the honey to the rest of the ingredients at the beginning of the two week infusion. Do I have to toss it out and begin again?

By: Dustin Gamester

Dustin Gamester — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 09:40:20 +0000

Can I use it to flavor home brewed kombucha?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:11:26 +0000

In reply to Christine Moye. Don’t throw it away, Christine! Just split it into two jars. It should be okay.

By: Christine Moye

Christine Moye — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:28:34 +0000

In reply to Christine Moye. Never mind! I just read the recipe more thoroughly and realize I was not supposed to add the honey until after the vinegar ferments. I guess I’ll have to toss mine and start over. ?