My sweet daughter tried some commercially prepared ginger turmeric shots and liked them enough to want to have them on the daily but they are so costy! She’s a crafty gal so she asked me to source some 2 oz glass bottles and pick up ingredients to DIY. I got a top of the line juice press about 25 years ago that’s still going strong and it handled this project beautifully. It took about 45 minutes to process a big batch of fresh turmeric and ginger root, fresh lemons, and a bunch of apples. We added a bottle of echinacea tincture.
30 glass bottles washed and filled to about 1.5 oz each to leave room for freezing. They did freeze perfectly and she had a week’s worth in a jar in the fridge and another week’s worth in a jar in the freezer, so the yield for her was a month and a half.
The left over pulp was fairly dry but ginger and turmeric are powerful roots so I boiled it all up in a very large pot and then strained it after about an hour. The resulting “tea” was so thick and orange, I cooled it in the fridge overnight and ordered 30 4 oz bottles for Robert and I to have a shot each day.
Added a bottle of astragalus to ours.
The commercial shots are $8 for four 1oz bottles, we made 171 oz which would have cost $342! The bottles were a one time investment, the tinctures cost about $60, and the rest of the ingredients maybe $20 so I consider that a fantastic win. To be honest, we could boil the pulp again and it would be almost as strong. We may dehydrate it to use in curry, no waste!