[SustainableTompkins] switch-o recipe

[Joey Gates]

Thanks Joel, we do like sumac lemonade too!

--- On Sun, 5/25/08, Joel and Sarah Gagnon <Joel.and.Sarah.Gagnon at lightlink.com> wrote:

From: Joel and Sarah Gagnon <Joel.and.Sarah.Gagnon at lightlink.com>
Subject: Re: [SustainableTompkins] switch-o recipe
To: "Sustainable Tompkins County listserv" <sustainabletompkins at lists.mutualaid.org>
Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 10:53 AM

I had never heard of switchel, but I did hear of sumac flowers being used 
to make a lemonade-like drink during haying season. Here is what I found in 
Wikipedia about that:


  In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac 
(Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed
"sumac-ade" 
or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by
soaking the 
drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the 
liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it.
I

Joel

At 12:05 PM 5/24/08 -0400, you wrote:
>We called it:  switchel...and guess what it has a wikipedia entry:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchel
>
>-- Katie Q-J
>
>
>Joey Gates wrote:
> > Any old time farmers out there (or others of course too :) ever hear
of 
> a drink called switch-o.  It was like a gatorade drink that we used to 
> make in hay making season, but no one seems to know the recipe.  I think 
> it was something like water, vinegar and molasses..?  Sounds awful but is 
> very refreshing and can be made with local, healthy ingredients.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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