Recipe
Cranberry Orange Shrub with Rosemary
This Cranberry Orange Shrub is made using the classic hot process. Just mix and heat, strain and drink!
Overview
For this recipe, I used a hot shrubbing process that yielded a shrub we could drink within an hour. I wasn’t happy with the amount of sediment this method created, but it is still delicious!
Ingredients
1 lb. fresh cranberries
Water
1 cinnamon stick
¾ cup white or golden sugar
2 Mandarin oranges, chopped
1 ¼ cups cider vinegar
2 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves only
¼ cup white balsamic vinegar
Instructions
Step 1
Wash the cranberries and put them in a medium saucepan. Cover with water.
Step 2
Pulse the oranges in a food processor or blender (or if you don’t have either, just chop them up whole)
Step 3
Add the sugar, oranges, rosemary, and cinnamon to the cranberries.
Step 3
Stir the mixture for a few minutes until it is well blended, then cover tightly and set aside for 2-5 hours.
Step 4
Stir and heat until hot; simmer gently until the cranberries burst then turn off the heat and allow to cool.
Step 5
Strain the mixture into a large bowl, pressing gently to express as much juice as possible without pushing the fruit through the sieve.
Step 6
Add an equal amount of cider vinegar and about ¼ cup of white balsamic and stir.
Step 7
Bottle it: pour over a cocktail sieve placed in a funnel to remove more of the sediment. Cover and refrigerate. You can use it now, but it is recommended that you wait a few days for the flavors to marry and get happy.
Cranberry Orange Shrub with Rosemary-Hot Process
Equipment
- medium saucepan
- blender, food processor, or knife
- clean jar with lid
- spoon
- measuring cup
- Bowl
- strainer
- cocktail strainer
Ingredients
- 1 lb. fresh cranberries
- 1 cup water
- 2-3 Mandarin oranges, chopped
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves only
- 1 stick cinnamon
- 3/4 cup white or golden sugar
- 1 1/4 cups cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar
Instructions
- Wash the cranberries and put them in a medium saucepan. Cover with water.
- Pulse the oranges in a food processor or blender (or if you don’t have either, just chop them up whole)
- Add the sugar, oranges, rosemary, and cinnamon to the cranberries.
- Stir and heat until hot; simmer gently until the cranberries burst then turn off the heat and allow to cool.
- Strain the mixture into a large bowl, pressing gently to express as much juice as possible without pushing the fruit through the sieve.
- Add an equal amount of cider vinegar and about ¼ cup of white balsamic and stir.
- Bottle it: pour over a cocktail sieve placed in a funnel to remove more of the sediment. Cover and refrigerate. You can use it now, but it is recommended that you wait a few days for the flavors to marry and get happy.