Pear Shrub with Honey & Thyme
Fruit + thyme + sugar + honey + time + vinegar
Equipment
- Large jar
- Muddler
- Large sieve
- Large bowl
- Measuring cups
- Funnel
- Small cocktail sieve
Ingredients
- Fresh ripe pears
- White or golden sugar
- Honey
- Several sprigs fresh thyme
- Apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Wash the pears, core them, chop them, and put in a large jar.
- Add the thyme sprigs, the honey, and the sugar. Cover and shake the jar to combine the ingredients, then set aside for 2-3 days. Shake the jar a couple of times a day if you like.
- After 2-3 days, the mixture should be juicy. Place a sieve over a large bowl and strain it. Don’t press the fruit the way you usually do; the pears (if ripe) are too soft for this and will drip large amounts of sediment into your shrub. Don’t even shake the sieve. (I did and managed to get a lot of sediment in the bowl, so I had to strain three times instead of twice!) Let time do the work.
- Measure or eyeball the fruit-sugar mixture and add that much vinegar and a bit more.
- Strain through a cocktail sieve into a jar or bottle; cover tightly and refrigerate until ready to use. You can try it now, but the flavors will meld, marry, and get happy over the next weeks.
Nutrition
Serving: 2TCalories: 40kcal
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