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Recipes

COCKTAILS (OR MOCKTAILS)

Appletini a la Shrub

Such a striking apple cocktail or should we say appletisimo’!

Ingredients:

  • 3 shots of your best vodka
  • 1 shot Finger Lakes Harvest Apple Shrub
  • ½ shot lemon juice or Lemon Shrub

Directions:

Pour over ice in mixer. Shake with vigor, garnish with a thin tart apple slice.

*Makes 2

Old Man

Simple, Straight to the heart, tart and old thymey

Ingredients:

  • 1 shots of your best Gin. We like Old Home Distillers (Lebanon NY)
  • 1 shot Apple shrub
  • Optional sprig of thyme or FLH Basil Extract

Directions:

Pour in mixer, swirl, pour on side of shot glass, add garnish. Swear under your breath, cheers to gramps.

*Makes 2

Apple Tank

Sometimes called a Rum Thumper.

Ingredients:

  • 2 shot of white rum
  • 1 shot FLH Apple Shrub
  • 1/2 shot FLH Spice X shrub (spicey molasses shrub)
  • 1 shot club soda
  • pinch of cinnamon, sea salt, sugar

Directions:

Pour over ice in mixer, shake briefly, strain into glass, rim glass with cinnamon salt and sugar (lightly).  Hommage to the rusty molasses and rum tanks of old Boston.

*Makes 1.   You are drinking this one alone……sometimes

Main Moose Cooler

Maine Moose Cooler. Created by friends in upper/mid Maine, this cocktail is quick to make and drink. Citrus base with Blueberry shrub overlays. 

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 oz Vodka
  • 1 oz  FLH Blueberry Shrub
  • Splash of Orange Juice
  • Citrus soda

Directions:

Combine all ingredients to a glass with ice. Garnish with an orange wedge and float blueberries and mint leaves if they are ready. 

Purple Viking

A fun drink, the Purple Viking is a simple but interesting recipe that pairs Southern Comfort with an array of fruity flavors. 

Ingredients:

  • 1 oz. Southern Comfort
  • 1 oz. sloe Gin
  • splash of mineral water
  • splash of citrus soda
  • 1 oz. Blueberry Shrub
  • dash of FLH Lime Bitters

Directions:

Combine ingredients in a tall glass, top it with citrus soda or spritzer and it’s a beautiful blue-purple drink. Use FLH lime bitters for a dash of hard lime. 

Cranberry Shrub Cocktail

his cranberry cocktail is amazingly simple and very cool.  It’s very easy to prepare. 

Ingredients:

  • FLH Cranberry Shrub
  • Cinnamon stick
  • Fresh rosemary
  • Black peppercorns
  • Bourbon
  • Soda water or selzer or tonic water

Ratio:  2 Bourbon: 1 cranberry shrub: 1 seltzer (or any)

Directions:

At your desired ratio, combine Bourbon, cranberry shrub and seltzer water in a glass with ice. Garnish with cinnamon stick, sprig of rosemary and 5 peppercorns

*It’s a fantastic hit at Thanksgiving.  This was tested on Bourbon snobs!!!

MEATS & MARINADE

Pork Loin Marinade

Any meat will do, but this is exceptional. A shout out to a famous black market BBQ in Syracuse NY, who turned us on to this recipe.

Ingredients:

  • 4 oz Finger Lakes Harvest Apple Shrub
  • 4 oz Apple cider vinegar
  • pinch of brown sugar
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • pinch of fine sea salt
  • sprig of fresh Rosemary

mix all, let lay on Loin for 2 hours, baste frequently, heavy baste as it comes out for final rest.

We did this with Tofu, and pan fried, yowza!!!

Cherry Braised Short Ribs

Great for when the weather gets cooler!

Ingredients:

  • 3 lbs. Beef Short Ribs
  • 2 tbps vegetable oil
  • 2 tbsp sesame eeeds
  • 2 tsp grated garlic
  • 1/2 c. red wine
  • 3/4 c. FLH Cherry Shrub
  • 2 c. beef stock
  • 1 c. Hoison sauce
  • 1/2 c. soy sauce
  • salt & pepper to taste

Directions:

  1. Season the short ribs. In a Dutch oven heat oil, & brown the ribs. (May have to do them in batches). Transfer to a plate.
  2. Lower the heat to medium, add the sesame seeds & let toast, add garlic, cooking for 1 minute.
  3. Pour in the wine, shrub, stock, hoisin & soy sauce. Place the ribs back in the pot making sure the meat is submerged. 
  4. Partially cover the pot & simmer until the meat is tender & falling off the bone. About 2 hours. 
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