From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2024-06-20, cshenk wrote:   
   > Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-06-19, cshenk wrote:   
   >>> Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> As an alternative, you can make switchel (aka "haymaker's punch",   
   >>>> or "ginger water") -- water, cider vinegar, ginger, and sweetener   
   >>>> (a mild flavored honey works well, though most any sweetener will   
   >>>> work -- molasses, pure maple syrup (i.e. NOT "Maple Flavored   
   >>>> Syrup"), raw sugar, etc.)   
   >>>   
   >>> Thanks!  It it specific to cider vinegar?  I have brown sugar cane   
   >>> vinegar.  I'd like to try mixing a batch here for Don and me.   
   >>> Ginger is very easy to grow!   
   >>   
   >> If it's a vinegar you'd throw directly on food / use as a salad   
   >> dressing, I bet it'd be fine. Worst case, you wasted a quarter cup of   
   >> it and a token amount of ginger and honey.   
   >   
   > I'll try it.  Yes, cane vineger is based on sugar canes.  It's brown   
   > but adds a very nice kind of sweetness and makes a better dressing than   
   > apple vinegar.  Datu puti is the brand I find here, product of the   
   > Phillippenes (sp?).  Pretty pricy on Amazon but inexpensive in any   
   > Asian ethnic grocery.  They also make the best soy sauce, better than   
   > kikkoman.   
      
   Sounds like it'd be a good choice then.  I made some the other day with   
   maple syrup, after a night in the fridge it tasted nearly exactly like   
   ginger ale.  Honey may well have lost its top spot :)   
      
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