Oli
Oli
Resident eejit. Radio4, kitchen dancing, owning recipe books to read not follow
Aug 9, 2020 1 min read

Making fruit liqueurs

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It’s been an amazing summer for fruit and during lockdown I’ve been walking a lot round a local industrial estate, listening to podcasts and occasionally picking fruit. I’ve had an amazing haul of cherries (bitter and sweet), brambles (blackberries) and looking at branches the apples are going to be amazing.

Anyway, I’ve three different things currently macerating, I’ll update this post once they are ready for bottling and drinking.

Creme de mure

An equal weight of brambles and red wine. I’ll be adding sugar and strong alcohol (probably gin, made, neutral grain spirit) after a month.

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Cherry liqueur

A bottle of 63% white rum and as many cherries as I could fit in. The highproof booze is because I want this to end up at around 40% even with the fruit juice

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Bourbon, cherries and lavender

I saw Anna from CookHouse posting about this over on Instagram and couldn’t resist giving it a try. I found a bottle of bizarre bourbon/scotch mix to try this with.

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