Fire Cider

   Husband has been obsessed with Fire Cider after sampling some at our friend's bar 1022 South, a fantastic craft cocktail establishment in Tacoma, Wa. I know, a bar doesn't sound like a place one would find a cleansing tonic such as Fire Cider, but after a couple of stiff ( and incredibly delicious ) drinks a shot of Fire Cider cleared one's head and left you feeling refreshed. So, after saying we were going to try making some we have finally gotten around to it.

   We chopped up a small yellow onion, minced an entire head of garlic, two cherry bomb peppers, grated a half cup of fresh horseradish and a half cup of ginger and put this all into a quart container. We added one teaspoon of ground tumeric ( although I would have liked to use fresh but our store was out, ) one and a half teaspoons of cayenne and filled the jar to the rim with apple cider vinegar. Then placing a peice of parchment paper over the rim of the jar ( to prevent corrosion ) we sealed the jar, gave it a good shake and put it in the back of one of our cupboards to stew for the next eight weeks. There is some debate as to how long you need to wait till it's "done," but eight weeks sounded good to us. So until then we will give it a shake every now and then and taste later. Stay tuned...