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About the Recipe
The perfect summer drink for those fresh, ripe strawberries! This fermented
strawberry soda is crisp & bubbly, strawberry sweet, and filled with nourishing,
gut-friendly probiotics!
Ingredients
● 5 cups strawberries
● 1 cup organic pure cane sugar
● 7 cups of water
● 1/2 cup whey (Just scoop a container of plain whole yogurt into a
dishtowel, tie it up onto a cupboard door and let it drip into a jar - the
liquid dripped off is probiotic rich whey! The leftover yogurt in the
towel is like Greek yogurt or cream cheese - yum! If you are dairy free
you can use water kefir grains or a ginger bug.
Preparation
1. Put the strawberries, sugar, and water in a large pot and bring to a boil.
Reduce to a simmer about 15-20 minutes.
2. Squish the strawberries in the pot (I use a potato masher), and pour
the strawberry sugar water through a fine mesh strainer into a large
bowl.
3. Add the whey to the strawberry sugar water in the bowl and stir. Pour
the soda mixture into flip top bottles and set in a warm area of your
home.
4. After a couple days you can open a bottle to check for taste and let the
fermented gasses out so it doesn't build up too much. Fermentation
can take anywhere from 3 days to a week. Our home has been quite
unseasonably cool this month so it took mine more like a week. Move
the bottles to the fridge once they are ready.