Harvest Drinks
Ingredients
Directions
Make the fruit vinegar
Place strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries in a bottle of good vinegar.
Strain the mixture and add more fruit until the desired flavor is achieved.
Keep the flavored vinegar bottled for use in hot weather.
Make the soda
Dissolve ½ teaspoon baking soda in a small amount of water in a tumbler.
Fill the tumbler two-thirds full with water and add the fruit vinegar.
For multiple servings, mix the baking soda in a pitcher and pour the fruit vinegar into each tumbler before adding the soda water.
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, raspberries, or blackberries
- Provide the main fruit flavor and aroma that infuses into the vinegar.
- Good vinegar
- Acts as the sharp, acidic base that carries the fruit flavor.
- Baking soda
- Reacts with the acid to release carbon dioxide, making the drink fizz.
The step that matters
Dissolving the baking soda before adding the vinegar. Baking soda reacts with acid to release carbon dioxide, which causes the fizz. Dissolving it fully in water first spreads it evenly so the reaction happens smoothly throughout the drink rather than in clumps.
“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.
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