Switchel recipe

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Ingredients

3 cups cider vinegar
1 cup honey
½ cup ginger syrup
11 ½ cups water

Nutrition Info

91.8 calories
carbohydrate: 22.6 g
cholesterol: : -
fat: : -
fiber: : -
protein: 0.1 g
saturatedFat: : -
servingSize: -
sodium: 8.4 mg
sugar: 17.6 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Stir vinegar, honey, and ginger syrup together in a bowl until honey is dissolved, add water.

  2. Chill switchel until flavors combine, 12 to 25 hours.

Recipe Yield

1 gallon

Recipe Note

This is an early (pre-Civil War) drink used by farm workers in the field. Vinegar helps to keep potassium levels up, the honey soothes the throat during a hard day of haymaking, and the ginger helps with digestion and absorbing the potassium. Also called haymaker's punch. It is very tart, probably takes a bit of getting used to.

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