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Today: Connie Green, founder of America's oldest wild foods company, author of The Wild Table, Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes, and a longstanding Good Food Awards entrant, shares a cocktail recipe using her winning entry from the 2013 pickles category: Elderberry Shrub.
More: Pick up Connie's pickled chanterelles and sea beans in Provisions.
The intense flavor of this elderberry shrub can take you in diverse directions, from its traditional use as syrup or as a base for astounding salad dressings. Its complex black currant-like flavor belies elderberry's legendary medicinal properties. Nothing in any health food store will taste this delicious, though -- and, because of its concentrated flavor, a little goes a long way. Any bitters can be used in this recipe, but we think orange is really a cut above.
Serves 1
1 1/2 ounce Pisco
1/2 ounce Elderberry Shrub (Don't have any? Make your own from pears or apples.)
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 egg white
3 dashes orange bitters
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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