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Fig & Sumac Fizz Recipe

Fig & Sumac Fizz

Fig syrup with a rim of sumac — jammy sweetness cut by a sour spice most people only know from salad.

Ingredients

How to Make It

  1. Rim a highball glass with sumac.
  2. Fill with ice and add the fig syrup, lemon juice and cold water.
  3. Top with sparkling water and stir gently.
  4. Garnish with a fig slice.

Garnish

Sumac rim and a fig slice

The Story

Sumac is the Levantine souring agent, used where a Western kitchen would reach for lemon; against fig it does something neither does alone.

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