Summertime Haymaker's Punch with a Lyme Twist

Well, actually- the old fashioned term is switchel, or switchy, or swizzle, or ginger-water. 

It has a fun background- you can read more about it's history and variations at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchel

In my search for something refreshing, and a bit fun- in my highly limited world of eating and drinking-  I looked over a number of switchel recipes and came up with my own adaption. 

For a sweetner I use Stevia, as it is a recommended sweetner for most Lyme Fighters- but you could figure out your own substitute (maybe even molasses).... 

Here it is:

Cynthia's Switchel

8 cups cold water

8 tsp of Stevia powder (may have to play with this depending on the brand of Stevia you use; I use Stevia in the Raw)  

1/3 cup Apple Cider Vinegar (Bragg's Brand)

1 teaspoon of ginger powder (or for a bigger kick:  get fresh ginger root, peel, and chop 1TBSP to 1/4 cup of fresh ginger root)

Place all ingredients in a covered glass container- keep refrigerated. 


OOooolala!  It is so good!  Pretty soon friends will ask to have what you're havin' instead of you wishing you had what they have! 

Meanwhile-  for the best refreshment of all, regularly dip from the well of Living Water- the Word of God. 

Blessings~ 
John 4: 7-30
⁷ There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹ Therefore the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

¹¹ She *said to Him, “^[b]Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water? ¹² You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”


¹⁵ The woman *said to Him, “^[c]Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.” ¹⁶ He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

¹⁷ The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

¹⁹ The woman *said to Him, “^[d]Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

²¹ Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²² You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

²³ But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴ God is ^[e]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵ The woman *said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” ²⁶ Jesus *said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”


²⁷ At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

²⁸ So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and *said to the men, ²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not ^[f]the Christ, is it?”

³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.