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We’ve provided a recipe below, but don’t feel like you have to use all of these ingredients or the exact quantities. It takes just 20 to 30 minutes to make a batch of fire cider, but then you need to leave it to brew for a few weeks before it’s ready to use – all the more reason to start a batch now, so when those achy, stuffy feelings suddenly arise, you can nip them in the bud. (Trust us, no one may want to get within 20 feet of you after you drink fire cider, but hopefully curing your cold or flu before it floors you will be worth this one sacrifice.) Other common ingredients include lemons, honey, and savory herbs (like rosemary, thyme, sage, parsley and chives), which all add health attributes of their own to the brew, but also help to balance out the flavor profile. There is no set formula and there are lots of optional ingredients you can add, like horseradish and onions. Rosemary Gladstar, the famed American herbalist, is generally credited with first devising the concoction now widely referred to as fire cider back in the 1970s, though it is based on centuries’ old herbal wisdom. Herbalists have long combined them with apple cider vinegar – which has numerous purported health benefits of its own, from treating diabetes to promoting heart health – for a powerful herbal elixir: fire cider. Besides their other health attributes, ginger, hot peppers and garlic are traditional cold remedies. Tea: I like adding 1 tsp to a cup of chai or rooibos tea.Studies show that garlic may help reduce heart disease cayenne is effective against arthritis and ginger is good for a host of gastrointestinal ailments.Marinade: Make a simple marinade with 1 cup of olive oil, 1/2 cup of fire cider, 1 tsp salt and 1 tbsp Dijon mustard.Cooked vegetables: Add a drizzle to roasted or steamed vegetables to give them a burst of flavour.Just avoid mixing it with other acidic juices since it’s already quite acidic. Drink flavouring: Add 1 tbsp to a glass of ginger ale, sparkling water or apple juice.

Salad dressing: Mix 2 tbsp with 1/4 cup of olive oil, 1 tsp of Dijon mustard and a pinch of salt for a flavorful salad dressing.

In either case, I recommend rinsing your mouth with water afterwards to protect your teeth from the acidity.

For a health tonic: Take a tablespoon straight up or mix it into a glass of water or juice.

Here are a few of my favourite ways to enjoy this vinegar infusion: However, it also has many delicious culinary uses.

Herbal Infusion: For a herbal infusion add 2 more sprigs of rosemary with 3 sprigs each of thyme, oregano, parsley and marjoram.įire cider is traditionally used as a health tonic to boost your immune system.

Skip adding the orange and rosemary in this very fiery cider vinegar.

Spicy: For a hot and spicy cider add 1 or 2 chilli peppers sliced in half.

It’s perfect with the ginger and rosemary. Skip adding the garlic, horseradish and onion, instead include a whole orange sliced in circles and a whole lemon sliced in circles. I’ve added a few extra ingredients to make my fire cider a bit more flavourful! Here are a few more ways to take this basic fire cider recipe and switch up the flavours: While the traditional fire cider recipe contains: garlic, onion, horseradish and cayenne pepper, I like to play with the flavour.

Not including honey means that this fire cider is suitable for vegans, keto-diets, pregnant women and anyone with immunity issues.

Mixing honey with apple cider vinegar does not allow for it to be probiotic either, as the acidity of nearly straight vinegar is high enough to kill the natural strains of yeast and bacteria.

As soon as the honey is mixed with something else, it is no longer antibiotic.

The antibacterial properties of raw honey only work in an undiluted form.

Here are a few reasons for not including honey:

This is my take on fire cider, and it’s a bit different from the original one. Fire cider is a folk remedy that focuses on packing as many beneficial ingredients into a jar as possible then infusing it all with apple cider vinegar.