Blackberry, Cucumber, Ginger Spritzer

Submitted by Food.com

"Recipe courtesy Kelsey Nixon"

 

• Ready In: 73hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Yields: 8 drinks

ingredients

• Blackberry Sipping Vinegar

• 2 cups blackberries
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups apple cider vinegar

• Ginger-Infused Herbal Tea

• one 6-inch piece ginger, sliced into coins and smashed
• 2 mixed berry herbal tea bags

• Spritzer

• ice
• 1⁄2 cup lemon juice
• 1⁄2 cup elderflower syrup
• seltzer water, to top off
• 24 slices cucumbers, for garnish (3 slices per drink)
• 8 thinly sliced ginger, coins for garnish
• 8 fresh mint sprigs, for garnish

directions

1. For the sipping vinegar:

2. Mash the blackberries and sugar together in a bowl, cover and refrigerate for 2 days, stirring occasionally. Add the vinegar to the macerated blackberries and refrigerate for another day. Press the mixture through a fine mesh strainer, discarding the solids. Transfer your sipping vinegar to a container.

3. For the herbal tea:

4. Combine the ginger and 2 1/2 cups water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the tea bags and turn off the heat. Let the mixture steep for 5 minutes, then strain and cool.

5. For the spritzer:

6. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add 2 ounces blackberry sipping vinegar, 2 ounces cooled herbal tea, 1/2 ounce lemon juice and 1/2 ounce elderflower syrup. Shake vigorously and pour over a glass filled with ice. Top off with some seltzer and garnish with 3 cucumber slices, 1 ginger coin and a mint sprig. Repeat.