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How to make a Switchel- a healthy, energizing, probiotic drink made with apple cider vinegar (with the "mother" in it), lemon, ginger, honey or maple syrup - (both optional, see notes) that lowers blood sugar, improves insulin sensitivity, builds healthy bacteria in the gut, lowers cholesterol, helps sheds weight, boosts immunity, aids with digestion and regularity and increases energy and vitality!

Switchel Recipe 

ginger

apple cider vinegar

½ -1 lemon (or sub limes oranges

honey

Place ginger in one cup of water in a small pot and bring to a boil. Let cool.

Pour the ginger water, remaining water, apple cider vinegar, juice from half a lemon, and your choice of sweetener into to a quart mason jar. Stir and adjust lemon and sweetness to your taste.

Store in a pitcher or mason jar, either in the fridge or at room temp ( if drinking throughout the day).

Enjoy first thing in the morning to aid the liver in cleansing, or in the afternoon for an energizing pick-me-up.

As a teenager working on the neighbor's farm, we drank a lot of switchel during the summer hot months. I have, over the years, kept drinking it for my health. I now have my own recipe which actually makes it a pleasure to drink.
3/4 cup apple juice, 1/4 cup water,  squirt of lemon juice,  3 teaspoons Braggs apple cider vinegar, and two shakes of organic ground ginger. Stir and enjoy. No need to add any sweetener as the apple juice has enough but is still OK for diabetics.

I have the book The Master Cleanser so it was lovely to see you post this recipe.  I have been doing this for a long time.

I also like to add fresh turmeric to the ginger and water, has wonderful health benefits and tastes delicious.
P.S. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful recipes, you are certainly an inspiration.

I'-ve been drinking ginger water not with consistency but after seeing your recipe today is a new beginning for me. Thank you?

My favorite drink!!! Adding lemon and ginger  so simple yet so  wonderful. Thank you, Sylviia for a delicious advice!  I'm  hooked on your inspiring  recipes!

I have cultivated a DEEP and abiding hateful resistance to Kombucha for at least 2 decades. Really. Would rather be stabbed in the eyeball than drink that s...!  BUUUUUT....Saw a few of your other recipes and tried them with great joy on the outcomes and then...I saw the Switchel...Dang. Given my native habit of forgiveness, I decided to try it. There were no specifics on the size of the ginger "slices" so I used about 1/8" slices from an inch-wide root. Brought to boil and boiled for about 30 secs. Cooled by pouring off into a thin metal container while assembling the other ingreds. I didn't use a T of raw honey. Just about a healthy tsp. and juice from half a lemon along with the 2T of well shaken Braggs vinegar. My, my....MY, MY....I freaking LOVE this! Even luke warm it was so FRESH and lovely. Not nearly as sicky sweet as some commercial, albeit organic Kombuchas. THANK YOU!!!!! I only hate you a little bit...I promise. Habits, in this case are easily broken. I up and made 4 jars straightaway. Fanfreakintastic. xoxo Evie

We have used ACV medicinally for decades, including for food poisoning. Our family of 5 once did a trial to see if it really worked: when we had eaten some "iffy" food at a picnic, some of us took the ACV and some didn't. Those that didn't, got sick, we others did not. We take it like a shot; 1-3 tsp in water (we used to do 8 oz, but now i cut to the chase and sock about 1TBSP in 2-4oz water. Gets the job done fast. Whenever I am suspicious of a food I ate, or if tummy feels kinda funny, i take no chances and down it. And in those days, it was just the commercial ACV, not the good stuff we can get now! But either works.  Had to share. It's never done me any harm, and because it is downed like you might a shot of strong booze, (gulp!), there's no tasting it really. :)

I just made Switchel...and I have to say I love it!  I did not add sweetener at all.  The combination of ginger, lemon &amp; acv is stellar fabulous.  So great that it makes a big mason jar for in my fridge so that it is handy for the week.  Thank you so much!

I found this recipe while looks for something to make me less tasty to mosquitos. I haven’t been able to test out the mosquito deterrent effects, but the drink was quite tasty. I don’t normally drink alcohol and have been looking for a refreshing summer drink, think I found it.

Fantastic recipe! I'm definitely going to try this one out.

I start craving it!! I poured some into icecube tray so I don’t water it down when I drink it all day!

Enjoy this old-fashioned ginger water recipe, also known as Switchel or Haymaker&#039;s Punch, as a refreshing drink to help rehydrate you after working in the hot sun all day.

Ginger Water (Switchel or Haymaker's Punch)

brown sugar

molasses (blackstrap)

water

Dissolve brown sugar and molasses in vinegar, stir well.

Add ginger and stir.

Pour into a quart-sized jar and add enough water to fill to the top.

Store in the fridge, and serve over ice. Makes 4 servings.

I saw this recipe and thought to myself, well, maybe you could stomach this. I made up a batch using different sweeteners because I'm keto. I tasted along the way to get it to where I liked it. At the end of the process, I absolutely fell in love! I couldn't wait for it to cool in the fridge so I poured it over ice. I have been trying to figure out a way for me to get ACV in and couldn't manage it, you provided a delicious way to accomplish the goal. I think this will get me off the sugar-free flavored water as well! Thank you so much for this.

Can this be made ahead and canned in jars?  This way it could be put in the refrigerator the night before so you don't "forget" to make it and then wish you had it.

I love how well you explain the steps and why they're important. Reading/watching your recipe details have inspired me to get back to basics in my kitchen.

Melissa, thanks for the recipe!
Last winter you mentioned you had gotten off your thyroid meds and I am very interested to know how you did it...you had mentioned you would write about it, I may have missed it or it was censored...but would love to know. You can email me directly,
Thanks, Sheila
You can email me directly

I read that vinegar drinks have been popular since Babylonian times.

I made raspberry switchel just yesterday and posted it. Too funny we are on the same wavelength. I will try the ginger only recipe next time. It's so delicious!

I have been wanting to try this for years and thought it would be complicated. I am amazed at how easy it is and all of the different ways that you can make it your own! Thank you for the recipe, the references, and the cookbook recommendation. I always love getting your emails and heading over to your website. I always feel inspired!

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