Huckleberry juice and ‘shrub’ make wonderful adult drinks.
This recipe, orignially posted on the Use Real Butter website, sounded especially appealing on these warm summer days!
Ingredients
Huckleberry Cocktail
- Ice
- 2 oz gin
- 1/2 oz. lime juice, fresh squeezed
- 1 oz. huckleberry shrub (see below for recipe)
- 3-4 dashes bitters (limes work best)
- Ginger beer
Huckleberry Shrub
- 1 cup huckleberries
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup champagne vinegar
Instructions
Make the huckleberry gin fizz:
- Fill glass with ice. Pour the bitters, lime juice and huckleberry shrub syrup, and into the glass. Add in ginger beer and a few frozen huckleberries. Makes 1 cocktail.
Make the shrub syrup:
- Chop or mash the huckleberries (food processor works well).
- Mix sugar with the huckleberries cover (plastic wrap is best).
- Refrigerate for 3 or more days to allow the berries to soften.
- Strain and press the juices through a sieve, extracting as much juice as possible. Scrape any left over sugar back into the liquid.
- Stir in or pour the champagne vinegar over the huckleberries in the sieve to to dissolve any left over sugar.
- Place the shrub syrup in a seal jar and storing it in the refrigerator for at least a week -- shaking it at least once a day.
- The shrub syrup will mellow after two weeks in the refrigerator and can last for a few months to a year or more.
Check out the full Huckleberry Gin Fizz recipe here from the Use Real Butter website, including some other great huckleberry recipes!
Some of the previously posted drinks, including adult drinks, are listed here: Huckleberry Drinks
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