It has been a while since I made some more liqueurs. I don't think I made anything last year.... maybe some Wiśnówka (cherry liqueur). This year we have been drinking some great
Fernet Citrus a fabulous Czech beverage which one of my fabulous students brought me because you can't buy it in Poland. Hence, we wanted to make some sort of digestive. It is very difficult to find a good/easy recipe for a herbal based liqueur, so we had to think about it ourselves and design something that might be similar. It is of course hard as you won't know for a month or more how it does taste. Time in this case is your enemy, where as with liqueurs normally it is your best friend.
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| We gathered together some things we thought might make a good brew. |
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| Some spices |
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| Spice and ginger |
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| Some lime rind, with lemon thyme and a vanilla bean |
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| some mint and lemon balm |
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| A couple of oregano leaves and the heavy stuff gets added. |
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| Now mix. |
The whole recipe:
10g Lemon Balm
13g Spearmint
1g Thyme
5 Cloves
10 Peppercorns
15 Aniseeds
10 Corriander seeds
5 Cumin seeds
1 Vanilla pod
16g Ginger (peeled)
Lime (Juice and zest)
300mL White Rum
~600mL Vodka
105g Sugar
100mL Water
Combine all the dry ingredients into the jar including the lime zest and juice. Heat the sugar and water in a pan until it has dissolved. Add this to the dry ingredients, then the white rum and top up with Vodka. Shake and store in a dark cool place. Shake whenever you remember it.
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| Or maybe some plums |
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| Totally stoned |
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| Pack the kids in |
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| Add a vanilla pod brandy and vodka and store somewhere dark |
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| Pick some bountiful wild foods. The horseradish leaves for bread and the mirabelle plums to eat and maybe try a liqueur, the French of Lorraine can't be wrong. |
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| Now add some sugar and gin and vodka. |
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| a bit cloudy but from all reports that is normal. |
Now let's wait and see how they taste..... 2 weeks after bottling the first two and they are very very good. The Mirabelles need much more time.
