Cranberry-Apple Shrub

Excluding for pumpkin pie, fallen leaves, and football video games, nothing says “tumble” better than this autumnal shrub. Can procure to you are buying from a farmers’ market, create the farmer overjoyed and fling for bruised or otherwise marred apples. That it’s possible you’ll presumably also accept a decrease mark to your bewitch, and it’ll set the farmer from trucking all of it abet dwelling on the end of the night time. And it absolutely could presumably also no longer procure an impact on the standard of the shrub.

— Reprinted with permission of Countryman Press from SHRUBS: AN OLD-FASHIONED DRINK FOR MODERN TIMES, by Michael Dietsch. Countryman Press, 2014. —adashofbitters

Directions

1. The use of a box grater or a meals processor, shred the apples.
2. Meanwhile, add cranberries and vinegar to a blender. Blend till puréed.
3. Add shredded apples, cranberry-vinegar mixture, and sugar to a nonreactive container. Conceal and proceed in frosty enviornment on the countertop for up to 2 days.
4. After 2 days, enviornment a fine-mesh strainer over a bowl. Strain apple-cranberry mixture. Squeeze or press to blueprint end away any marvelous liquid.
5. Pour liquid into shipshape mason jar or glass bottle. Add lid or cap and then shake properly to combine. Feature in fridge.
6. Discard solids. Shrub will defend for up to 1 year.