Name: Strawberry Shrub
Ingredients: 1 quart ripe strawberries; juice of 2 lemons; ice; sweet wafers or sponge cake

Strawberry Shrub

Ingredients

1 quart ripe strawberries
juice of 2 lemons
ice
sweet wafers or sponge cake

Directions

Prepare the fruit

Pick over and wash the strawberries, then sugar them.
Squeeze the juice of the lemons over the strawberries and let them stand.

Assemble and serve

Half-fill glasses with ice.
Crush the strawberries and fill the glasses with the crushed fruit and juice.
Serve with whole unstemmed strawberries on the plate, accompanied by sweet wafers or sponge cake.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Strawberries: Provide the main fruit flavour, colour and body of the drink.
Lemon juice: Adds acidity that balances the sweetness and brightens the fruit flavour.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.