As a child, Meredyth Archer would drink a sweetened vinegar with her grandmother, who thought it was the answer to everything. Years later, she came across a recipe for a raspberry fruit vinegar, or shrub, in a family cookbook from the late 1800s, a hand-me-down. She remembered the tart and sweet taste from her youth and decided to make a batch. Many shared batches later, MOTHER shrub drinking vinegars was born.