When you have a major harvest, do you try recipes you would never have considered before the bonanza arrived? I sure do! Take this plum brandy, for instance. It took a quantity of ripe plums. Any other year I was too stingy with the fruit to do a “frivolous” project such as this. After tasting […]
Homemade infused liquors are delicious, fun and easy to make. Learn how to make blackberry brandy and you're on your way to amazing craft cocktails at home! It's smooth, fruity, and as a bonus, it's beautiful too. Plus you'll know you made it with your own two hands. I mean, these are life skills worth learning!
Homemade Cherry Brandy, Romanian Visinata, sipping brandy, Cherry Bounce
Enjoy the taste of summer year-round by preserving fruits in brandy. Brandied fruit is delicious on ice cream, pound cake, or as is with cream.
When you have a major harvest, do you try recipes you would never have considered before the bonanza arrived? I sure do! Take this plum brandy, for instance. It took a quantity of ripe plums. Any other year I was too stingy with the fruit to do a “frivolous” project such as this. After tasting […]
The consumption of fruit brandies (rakija) in the region is increasing, the market is constantly searching for new, high-quality brandies, and the age structure of the target groups is getting lower. What used to be the drink of older generations (predominantly baby boomers and generation X), a primarily male population, has completely changed: brandies are […]
Homemade Cherry Brandy, Romanian Visinata, sipping brandy, Cherry Bounce
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A traditional Yorkshire Recipe, these delicate lacy biscuits have a delicious crunch and a warming ginger spice flavour.
4-6 quinces 2 litres cheap brandy 4 small cinnamon sticks 4 star anise Rub the fuzz off your quinces with a kitchen towel. Quarter them, without peeling or coring, and place them in a large (one-ga…
This recipe is a bit of a cheat, because it's not actually IN the Recipe Box. All I have from the Box is the title of the recipe, at the bottom of a torn-off piece of newspaper that included the recipe for Cinnamon Pecans that let me down way back in 2015. But I was immediately taken with the i
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Make homemade food gifts for the holidays.
In an effort to reduce the crazy consumerism around the holidays, a few years back our family decided to do homemade gifts for each other instead of buying everyone a gift. It has made the holiday…
Imagine sipping a hot toddy of Bramble Brandy on a cold Winter's night to warm you up.Full of vitamin from blackberries and elderberries and complimenta....
Homemade Cherry Brandy, Romanian Visinata, sipping brandy, Cherry Bounce
I sure will be glad when I get this blogging and tutorialing down pat. It's all a little confusing being a newbie, but I'm getting there. SL...
Who can say no to sweet, ginger flavored biscuit tubes, filled with cream. They’re a fairly simple dessert to make but don’t try to cook too many in the oven in one go. They’ll harden too quickly once removed from the oven and rolling them will be almost impossible.
Serves: n/a. Approx cost: €18. Approx calories (per serving): n/a. Approx preparation and cooking time: 2 months. I happened to come across a rather interesting post recently on Sissi's blog, "With a Glass" about making Apricot Gin. I'm not a big drinker, but I do enjoy the occasional one, especially at Christmas time. Being not too much of a fan of Gin or Vodka I remembered that the company "De Kuyper" makes some rather delicious Cherry and Apricot Brandy and I figured that perhaps, just perhaps, these wouldn't be too hard to emulate. Using Sissi's invaluable advice I set to work this weekend on my very own batch of both Cherry, and Peach Brandy, with the plan of giving them to friends and family as wonderful little gifts come December time. I've literally only just made it, so this post is going to have to be a work in progress. I will write the post now, because if you wanted to do the same sort of thing for Christmas it's advisable to do it sooner rather than later... especially since such fruits are in season! Bear in mind though that I am a mere novice at this so please read around if in any doubt, as I do not yet know whether this will be a complete disaster or not (although early indications are that it will be awesome! I like the drink to be sweet - like a liqueuer, so you may need to adapt accordingly if you're not so keen! Good luck! I'll be updating this in about 3 months with the results of my experiment!
Six months later…
Slivovitz is a plum schnapps or brandy made all across Eastern Europe and -- under different names -- in Germany, France and Italy.
So one day, I was sitting in my office and a colleague came in. We started chatting about canning and the like. He started telling me a re...
