Table of Contents
Part 1 – From Garden to Kitchen
1
Introduction
Finding Beverages in Your Garden
The Joys of Juice (and Other Drinks)
Where’s the Juice?
You Have the Skills
Your Garden’s Already Perfect
2
Growing a Beverage Garden
Meet Our Favorite Plants
Pruning for Production
3
Harvesting & Preparation
Reaping What You’ve Sown
Is It Ripe Yet?
Equipment: Keeping It Simple
Clear the Decks!
Part 2 – Juices & Fermented Beverages
4
Creating Fruit & Vegetable Drinks
Juice or Cider
How to Make Juice
Refrigeration and Freezing
How to Can
Step-by-Step Canning
Recipes:
Berry Juice
Strawberry Juice
Peach Juice
Big Wow Grape Cider
Crab Apple Juice
Apple Juice
Apple Family Cider
Peerless Pear Cider
Happy Time Pear Juice
Prickly Pear Cactus Juice
Tomato Juice
Sensational-7 Vegetable Drink
DeNeice’s Super-Heated Bloody Mary Mixer
5
Creating Wines, Meads & Specialty Drinks
A Garden Full of Wine
The Hardest Part is Patience
How Fermentation Works
Different Kinds of Fermented Drinks
Managing the Must
How to Make Wine
Racking
Time to Bottle
Recipes:
Easy Garden Grape Wine
All-Around Herb Wine
Dandelion Wine
Garden Mint Wine
Parsley Wine
Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine
Heirloom Potato Wine
Prickly Pear Cactus Wine
Bitchin’ Birch Wine
Basic Mead
Red, White, and Blueberry Mead
Mixed Berry Mead
Old Crabby Mead
Spiced Apple Mead
Very Perry Holiday Mead
Crab Apple Rice Wine
Nan’s Crab Apple SuperCider
Peerless Perry
Luscious Limoncello
Part 3 – Syrups & Teas
6
Creating Garden Syrups
The Beauty of Homemade Syrups
Just Add Sugar and Boil!
Recipes:
Fruit Juice Syrup
Mint Syrup
Watermelon-Mint Syrup
Concentrated Watermelon Syrup
Peach-Rosemary Syrup
Blueberry-Basil Syrup
Spiced Ginger-Bay Syrup
One World Apple Spice Syrup
Tart Cherry Syrup
Prickly Pear Cactus Syrup
7
Creating Garden Teas
Teas for Two or More
Making Garden Teas
Plants for Making Tea
Recipes:
Citrus Peel Tea
Rose Hip Tea
Making Kombucha
Glossary
Metric Conversion Chart
Resources
Index