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Switchel or Haymakers Punch
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Benefits and recipe for switchel, chemical free hydration drink
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What’s so good about Switchel?
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Switchel: The Hipster Fermented Drink that Benefits Your Gut
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Switchel | A Healthy Drink Recipe and Alternative to Kombucha
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Switchel The 18th Century Energy Drink
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Switchel: The Old Fashioned Energy Drink
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Aficionados often tout switchel as a long-lasting energy-booster and caffeine-free alternative to coffee or energy drinks. It’s also marketed as a top source of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. What’s more, switchel is said to offer scores of benefits, such as a stronger immune system and healthier digestion.5 Benefits of Switchel 1. Ease inflammation. Is switchel good for you?
The ginger that makes up a key part of switchel is a natural 2. Get an electrolyte boost. Electrolytes are nutrients or chemicals in your body that help it perform specific 3. Enjoy a dose of apple cider vinegar. By.Switchel originally created as a energy and hydration drink back in the 17 hundreds is a traditional fermented beverage made from a base of Apple Cider Vinegar, Ginger Root, Lemon, Water and a Sweetner. a Favourite among sailors and farmers at the tim.So you will certainly enjoy this delicious drink after working all day in the garden when your body needs more than just water to rehydrate!
And since Switchel (sometimes called Haymaker’s Punch) is homemade, it is inexpensive, delicious, and effective for replenishing your cells with sodium, potassium, magnesium, and iron to help your body properly rehydrate.The apple cider vinegar is great and the fact that it has some form of a fermented ingredient means that there is no chance of the energy drink containing any level of alcohol. There is also no caffeine content as there is no tea or coffee in this drink, ingredients that other natural energy drinks may contain.Benefits The basic historical uses for switchel are both for hydration, and the replacement of electrolytes (i.e functionally, an energy drink). This is because while the water content will prevent dehydration, while the acetic content will help prevent over-hydration and lower blood-sugar levels.
Learn how to make switchel—a.k.a. nature’s Gatorade. Put down the high-priced energy drink, the soda, the canned liquid sugar.TOP 10 Benefits of Drinking Apple Cider Vinegar: Lowers blood sugar. Improves insulin sensitivity. helps with weight loss.
Reduces Belly fat. Lowers cholesterol. Boosts immunity. May improve heart health. May slow the growth of cancer cells.
Improves digestion. Increases energy.This simple colonial farmer’s drink is made with tangy apple cider vinegar, warming ginger, fresh lemon and a drizzle of honey for sweetness.
Switchel packs a punch of beneficial enzymes, detoxifiers and anti-inflammatory compounds, all in one sweet and refreshing gulp.Switchel was made with ginger, a splash of tart apple cider vinegar and something sweet like molasses, maple syrup, or honey. The ginger made it easier on your stomach to drink a lot of cold liquid all at once.
The apple cider vinegar cut through your thirst and left you smacking your lips, satisfied, and ready to get back to work.Switchel Variations to Try. With molasses: Blackstrap molasses is good for skin and hair.
It is a great natural source of iron, B6, potassium, selenium, and copper, and often helpful for people who suffer from anemia and have trouble absorbing other sources of iron.Drinking a solution of electrolytes can immediately replenish the lost water and minerals which can include calcium, magnesium, potassium, chloride, and sodium. The vinegar used in switchel is the apple cider type, and this is rich in potassium. Maple syrup can provide potassium too, together with magnesium, sodium, and calcium.
Although switchel doesn’t have the live cultures of the SCOBY floating about the brew, it is a rich source for potassium, which means it’s the perfect all-natural alternative to sugary sports drinks, and will help maintain a good electrolyte balance in the body.Enjoy and reap the benefits of fermented apple cider vinegar: By regularly drinking switchel, you’ll get all the nourishing benefits of apple cider vinegar; including healing compounds, like probiotics, magnesium, and potassium. It is also known to balance the body’s PH levels and is.Currently this new drink is ringing in the markets, capable delicious taste similar to lemonade, but they are numerous health benefits that made it popular. The Switchel is really a century-old drink that took fame in recent years and is poised to become the next Kombucha.
Stay one step ahead of others and begins to test the switchel today!
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104 comments
I Love Switchel so much! If you make up a few quarts of it, how long can you keep them in the fridge or does it ever go bad or need to be thrown out? Listen, I will drink this stuff fast but just wondering if I should choose to make a bunch all at once……
I made this the other night and I am so grateful you put this video up. I LOVE IT!!! and my kids love it. Thank you!!!
It’s basically a flu grog, with vinegar instead of lemon juice but no rum.. tho mine’s gonna have rum in..:)
I made this today, it was delicious. Thank you I love your videos. I made your chicken broth as well, soooo good ♡♡♡
how long can you keep this…or do you drink in all in one day…..hope this isn’t a dumb question
Made a version of this drink this morning for electrolytes. Not bad at all.
I make a batch of iced green tea to use for my switchel, amazing
So I watched your video yesterday. This morning I made the Switchel. As I am making it, I’m thinking “this isn’t going to be tasty”…. but my first taste and I really like it. I will be making this for my husband as well. The ginger gives it a nice kick. Thank you!
There are all sorts of variations, I have been using fire cider instead of the normal ACV which has the benefits of added turmeric and cayenne already added to it
LOL that is such a HUGE spoonful of Ginger it is nowhere near a tablespoon.
Carolyn is so sweet.
I like nice people.
It makes the world spin
I thought I made this up…lol.
I do apple cider vinegar and raw local honey, warm water, stir, put ice, then add water until it tastes like apple juice. ��
Energy until 3pm, cleans the liver, tons of live enzymes…
At 3pm, I do another with good cinnamon, cloves and ginger for the extra stimulant effect.
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I made this and added a bunch of caffeine tablets. Passed it out at work, people dug it. It was summer in the warehouse and it was an overnight shift.
Sounds great, I’m always looking for more healthy ways to use ginger, I also like the comment about adding turmeric! Thanks so much for the recipe!
Do you refrigerate it? I think it was too much ginger for me. I used Healthworks ginger powder from Amazon. Maybe it is to concentrated. Could’nt taste honey at all.
So stop the fucking rambling and just show us how to fucking make it.
Hi yeah, I’m near 60, and my mom used to make this when I was a kid.
One thing I noticed, having used apple cider vinegar to combat inflammation, you didn’t shake the vinegar to get “the mother”, all those cloudy bits at the bottom, mixed in. That’s where all the probiotics, antioxidants, and all those things you were touting are resting. Without a good hard shake, your switchel won’t have any of the qualities you described.
I scrolled back a ways, no where near the almost 300 comments, and didn’t see anyone recently mention this. If y’all are gonna make this, be sure to give your apple cider vinegar a good, hard shake!
I first heard of this at a Christmas Market last year.
Are there other flavours or spices that you can add to make it a different flavour or is it usually just the ginger?
Thank you sister for this wonderful recipe. I am on ketogenic diet and I will substitute the sweetener in this recipe with istevia. The rest of ingredients is allowed in my diet. Regards and love from Kuwait ♥️��.
My. mother used to make this for us when we were kids……about 60 plus. years ago. She had grown up with it and often made it for the farm crews when she was quite young. Great stuff. Thanks for the memory!!
So, I JUST got through making this. I was low on my organic molasses, but did have organic maple syrup! I have a lot of home juiced ginger so I just want ahead and used that. I added the organic vinegar with the ‘mother’ as you suggest, added to a 1/2 gallon Ball Jar, filled with filtered water…delicious. It’s a very refreshing taste. I cannot wait till it’s hot out to try then. Thanks for all the great inspirations. I am having so much fun with your marvelous ideas.
I noticed that we never actually saw you drink the stuff, funny.
I love these old time remedies and tricks, thanks for sharing some knowledge with us!!!
so I made some of this, not bad at all. Thanks!!!
Hi there! I think that sounds like an amazing “brew” and I’ve made note of the recipe. I’ll have to check it out! By the way, I have just liked this video and subscribed to your channel. I hope you check out my little channel on my life in retirement and do the same. Thank you! Have a good one!!
Similar drinks have been used in ancient Rome and given to legionaries on the march.
You forgot to SHAKE the VINEGAR in order to distribute the “MOTHER”
[probiotics] evenly throughout the Vinegar itself so that your getting it in your beverage. It tends to SETTLE in the bottom of the container. Very important to remember this.
Great video none the less. Thankyou��
Switchel Recipe
1 T Grated ginger (1 t dried)
3 T sweetener (molasses, maple, honey, raw or brown sugar)
3 1/2 C Warm water (or apple or cherry juice)
3 T Raw organic ACV
1/4 t sea salt
(Optional: up to 1/8 t cayenne for extra energy)
Mix together in a glass quart jar.
Wow! Great recipe! Is that really your grandmother’s kitchen? An AGA and a sub-zero! Sweet. My grandmother had a gas stove and a wood cookstove in her kitchen. I miss her.
Thank you! Been following Dr Berg n this fits right in to my new way of eating n drinking..actually i grew up on the good stuff..at 62 im just getting back to it after getting test results back on issues i can fix this way♡
I’ve tried this but not with the ginger. It was already delicious but the with ginger I can imagine how nice this would taste. I’ll be doing this soon. Like tomorrow!
I’vce been making this for years. As a dance teacher, this is all I recommend.
Great video, thanks for sharing! Here in Indonesia we have a drink from boiled water + tamarind + sugar (and then cooled) as traditional energy drink. Me and my high school friends used to go on 5-7 hours hiking with only water and this energy drink. I’m not sure the science behind it but every time we forgot to make the tamarind water we would be more, much more tired
I got some sorghum syrup, Himalayan pink salt and org apple cider vinegar, and made some switchel today! Really yummy. Thanks for the suggestion. I’m thinking about adding a pinch of turmeric and black pepper next time, for even more anti-inflammatory power.
Stop eating inflammation inducing grains and digestion issues are from plant toxins…
hey thank you for that live in Puerto Rico have been looking for something like this
When i was a kid my parents couldnt keep enough pickle juice for me all summer
I will use honey thanks it’s ugly hot here. I was a little light headed and summer only started today.
Very interesting. This is similar to my morning drink.
Apple cider vinegar
Water
Liquid stevia (to keep it keto)
Potassium citrate
Liquid D3-K2
Pink Himalayan salt
It’s delicious, and I use it to take my other supplements.
Awesome video as always!!! I absolutely love your presence and calm in how you present and explain!!! Just superbly done!!!! Thanks for sharing, I’m going to start making this for my uncle and myself but mostly for himself because he is working in the heat a lot!!!
Have a blessed day! All of my love and the love blessings and grace of our LORD ALMIGHTY unto you and yours today and for always!!!��������
Stay away from honey if you have irritable bowel syndrome, or very young children that will be drinking this too.
Hi Mary first time I hear about it. Will give a try. Is very hot �� in Florida. Thanks
I 1st saw this drink on “offgrid with Doug and Stacy”. Thanks for the video. I’ll be trying this tomorrow. Also liked and subscribed.
I’m one of those weirdos who loves black licorice, fennel, anise, and dark molasses. ☺️
Great video. I’ve been looking for an afternoon pick me up. Can’t wait to try it!
Its weird I first hear this word and not know what it was and diffidently never tried it when I was little and even seen it in old tv shows my parents are fond of. then I read about it recently in a book about living in past ages and stuff to try for summer. Then this video was suggested to me. I do not believe in coincidences. This was meant to be added to my repertoire! I hate energy drinks though and would never drink them, bu this could be worth a try.
Someone asked about using stevia… here was my reply:
I think she uses these alternatives to sugar for the trace mineral content they bring. The sorghum syrup is really niche thing… but molasses is not… so stevia would bring sweetness but not the mineral content of the others… perhaps use a small bit of “cone” sugar, brown sugar, or light molasses or that “raw” sugar… for the slight mineral content they have… and the stevia until you get the flavor to your liking… but really the reason to make this with these sugar alternatives is for the mineral and vitamin content they bring to really make this an old fashioned energy drink.
I just made this with fresh squeezed orange juice, tastes amazing!!
I love this!!! I recently found the recipe the Farmers Almanac site! Love all your videos!!!
Is it an “energy” drink, a sports drink or a summer drink? I remember researching how to make an “energy” drink then I realised what a completely useless and stupid marketing term it really is. Mostly it’s just caffeine and sugar, and caffeine isn’t an energy, it’s a drug. I actually had to explain to someone once that caffeine isn’t actually an “energy” it’s just an instruction for your body to produce a large spike in adrenaline.
This is a great drink. Just discovered your channel. Have enjoyed watching your videos. Beautiful family and farm.
This sounds like a perfect fit for our preferred sweetener: Birch Syrup. We get ours from here: http://bit.ly/AlaskaBirchSyrup it’s like butter caramel. We like the lighter first run; subsequent runs develop a very strong flavor, too much for us. A bit price-y, but so much better than maple and we’re New Englanders:-P
I found a recipe and history on switchel when I was having my scythe made. Indeed they did drink this while scything fields. I had made a sort of it without knowing long ago. Called it vinney-ade as I had no lemons but had plenty of acv and wanted lemonade.
I live in Queensland Australia and I’ve been looking for a homemade hydrating drink to make during the hot summer’s here. Thank you for sharing. ��
with you till the vinegar. Just the smell of it makes me nearly hurl.
i honestly wonder if it “gives you energy” or if they just assumed that the fact it makes you yell and scream obscenities was “extra energy”
Hey… good video‼️…I noticed you didn’t shake the vinegar to cause the “mother” to be blended in before pouring…is there a reason for that…thank you��
Hi Sweet Friends, If you need a tasty, all natural energy drink, then Switchel is the beverage for you! Learn How to Make Switchel, which is an 18th century energy drink that’s perfect to enjoy after exercise or hard work. And if you want to learn how to make a Ginger Bug and Homemade Ginger Ale too, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5On9AsrWVw&list=PLkRuW3pBo2U3sVtrfYJQu1IMlDqYpppaf Love, Mary
I have never used molasses I use honey or maple syrup. Mine is a gold color. I will have to try it that way. I just love it. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve made this just like this, also with honey or maple syrup in place of molasses, and I’ve tried lemon juice instead of vinegar for different variations…I’ve added cinnamon sticks, or sometimes even fruit….I drink a lot of it working outside in the Florida heat!! Love it….I also add sea salt for the electrolytes.
G’day and thanks for this one, we can add it to our hot summer times in Australia.
The recipes I saw left the switchel out on the counter for 24 36 hours.The reason I like this idea is there are probably more probiotics in it this way, don’t you think?
Love the video and the recipe. A bit of feedback though. It looked like he was a special guest, rather than also a host.
What brand of molasses did you use? Cause I’m having a difficult time finding organic unsulfured non blackstrap molasses.
Funny you should mix molasses with apple vin, i’ve been doing that and didn’t know it was a thing. cheers:)
Heading to our kitchen right now!! Thanks Mary! Just what we need for energy and healthy tummies! ��
I’ll definitely make that..I drink vinegar/water, and honey lukewarm when I do yard work. I can get headaches from the heat I have found. The vinegar and it being lukewarm keeps me from a headache most of the time. So this will be great! Thanks
I haven’t had switchel in an age but I used to drink it when I was doing reenacting! It’s so refreshing!
The finished product itself is not really fermented. Adding ACV which is fermented does not mean the end product is fermented because the fermentation stops when you put it in the fridge.
This is such a healthy version of energy drinks. Wow, I had no idea that something like this exists. Thanks for bringing it back to the modern ages, Mary!:)
I thank you �� for helping me in my daily WOD’s with the traditional kitchen ��
Mary this is wonderful! You are full of knowledge and I love it! I bet I could drink that because I drink all that kombucha. Lol. Hope you are having a great week. You look great! I am so interested in this. Does it give you energy when you drink it? I have to watch what I drink or eat during the day because I have a very sensitive stomach and they don’t know why but I am feeling so much better this week and so grateful. Been praying and God is leading me. This might help me too. Thank you Mary I need all those vitamins you mentioned. Sorry for the long comment been missing you������—-Tressa Daigle
It very hot here now so will try this drink tomorrow Thanks Mary Blessings
Thanks! I’ll try it. Id like to try to make this recipe into a probiotic drink by excluding the ginger but then adding ginger bug juice and bottling it to give it some carbonation.
Does it have that bite to it from the ginger? Or sour from vinegar?
Love it.. I have all the ingredients. I’m going to make this one. Thank you so much for sharing. Have a wonderful day..!!
In the early days of America, northern regions referred to maple syrup as molasses (a thick syrup like liquid) while the southern region referred to sugar cane molasses (also a thick syrup like liquid) as molasses. So both were used for the popular drink switchel. Honey was also widely used. Thanks for this Mary. Always a good informative video.
Gatorade and rehydration drinks are not energy drinks. Big difference.
Hi. How long does it store and does it have to be refrigerated?
Mary this was awesome. We need more of this especially in this day and age where a lot of people are addicted to all the other retail energy drinks out there (myself included). Thanks I will definitely have to try this out and let you know how it goes. Thanks! Send my best to Ted and the Fam!
I have been making this for years but I do keto so I use a keto sweetner and I add sea salt to it for electrolytes. If you want a flavor you can add some of those flavor diet drink powder packs to it or fresh fruit infuser.I live deep in the ����Mojave desert and when your hot and on keto you need this and this is great. I forgot I also add some posstaum powder you can get that on Amazon also. love this drink it’s great. Thank you Mary’s nest you have a blessed day.
Love your soothing voice and charming kitchen. Heard about this drink and it was nice learning from you. Thanks for sharing.
Sir.. The ladies first…
I like kombucha
the switshel will be my next experience
When I was Young and could work hard all day.Like loading Hay bales on a flat bed truck and trailer then stacking in barns.Or unloading Water melons,,,,, I would have a big glass of Milk when I got home.
Kombucha all the way. Wondering though in most of the recipes I looked at the switchel is left on counter overnight to start fermenting.. Why aren’t you?
I would like to see one video that just tells me what Switchel is and how to make it that doesn’t beat me over the head with how amazing it is and all the good things it does. Why does EVERYTHING have to be an infomercial? When we will progress past this stage as a society?
Ahh. You got me right there at the end. Love and god bless you! Subscribed.��
Switchel is my favourite go to drink I do love to add fresh mint leaves. I used to make Kombucha but I had a problem with using sugar. This was a really good video and thank you.
Here’s an awesome version of switchel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzUt0pQztck&t=16s
Kombucha culture eats the sugar, this drink, we eat the sugar. Yes, your trying to make a healthy drink, but its still loaded In sugar, and that means tons of calories.
This is amazing! I was just wondering if I could use the apple cider syrup as a sweetener? I know that this isn’t something that is popular in the US, but here in the Balkan it is very popular. It is full of iron and gives really nice flavor to everything.
Interesting take on Switchel, but can you tone down on the cook show tv-personality just a bit? be more casual, this feels too formal.
good job, does this ferment in the fridge?normally you ferment outside fridge. thanks good vid
Thanks for the recipe, Geremie! Will give it a try this weekend. A less sugary kombucha-type drink sounds great.
Hello Bob, I tried today the receipt! It taste very good! Thanks for the sharing.
I want to try this, I wonder if my toddler will enjoy the flavor as well!
Ain’t had time 2 watch much the last few days.1st I helped my cousin move then his vehicle died on him and his wife and the other 2 ppl with them.So I got hold of my other cousin who lives 80 miles from me and between us both we got them from being virtually homeless into a home. Ahh, finally I can relax a bit
Thanks Bob, I have heard of this just didn’t know the name of it. Just knew it was a refreshing drink. Thanks. �� NonnaGrace
Thanks Bob! We grow our own Ginger. I use it a long for tonics & an Immune syrup that is fresh lemon & Ginger layer in a jar with honey poured over it. I said a prayer for you on Out West Homestead’s channel, where the dogs got lost in the desert.
Hi Bob I made some today �� I like it.! Thanks for the recipe. Sports drinks are to sweet!
I was just thinking about all the biscuits I could have put that honey on lol
That looked refreshing. I appreciate you taking one for the team by trying it out even though you had a bad experience with the blackstrap molasses previously.
In one of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder Ma makes a ginger water for Pa to drink and Laura carries it out to the field for him to drink. I am wondering if this is what Ma made. Thanks for sharing Mary.
Braggs is great I’ve been making Fire Cider aka Thieves Tonic for the last couple years. I take a couple straight swishes a day and I’ve honestly been feeling a lot better in many ways
Great recipe! I’ll be trying it as soon as I get more molasses.
This was really cool, I’ll have to try it out! Also, you have a lovely voice! Definitely looking forward to future videos