How to make a "Shrub"
Ingredients:
- 1 pint orange juice
- 2 - 3 lemons
- 2 qt rum
- 2 lb sugar
- 1 qt water
How to:
- Begin with gentle fruit juices
- Put a little less than 1 pint orange juice and the juice of 2 or 3 lemons into a half-gallon or gallon jar
- *Before squeezing the lemons, peel the rinds very thinly and add them as well
- --Add 2 quarts rum
- Cover and let stand for three days
- --Put 2 pounds sugar into 1 quart water and bring to boil
- Add the sugared water to the rum and fruit juice, cover, and let stand for two weeks
- Then strain and bottle