schnapps

[Nicos]

Just read andrewo's post (pre Xmas) about favorite crops and saw the mention of schnapps made from rhubarb!! We got tons of rhubarb and see loads chucked out on other allotments. Would love the recipe please!! If it doesn't work out I'm sure it would make a fantasic weedkiller too!!! Thanks.

[JennieAtkinson]

Recipe please!! Rhubarb is the only thing that grows in Shetland to a height of 6 foot! and we have masses of it. Must be the long daylight hours in May/June, but we struggle to keep up with it before it goes to seed. Rhubarb jam is the traditional recipe at the SWRI teas here, so a snapps recipe would go down well!

[Lottie]

Just read andrewo's post (pre Xmas) about favorite crops and saw the mention of schnapps made from rhubarb!! We got tons of rhubarb and see loads chucked out on other allotments. Would love the recipe please!! If it doesn't work out I'm sure it would make a fantasic weedkiller too!!! Thanks.

I think that Nigella did one - will try to find it on another forum - can't remember which one!

[Lottie]

Recipe please!! Rhubarb is the only thing that grows in Shetland to a height of 6 foot! and we have masses of it. Must be the long daylight hours in May/June, but we struggle to keep up with it before it goes to seed. Rhubarb jam is the traditional recipe at the SWRI teas here, so a snapps recipe would go down well!

It has taken me all this time to search the web forums for the recipe, then I could not remember which forum wanted it.

Here it is - hope you make it after all this

Oh flaming heck it won' tlet me post it.

Any way it was Nigella Lawson's from Nigella Bites, - hang on I will have another go.

[Lottie]

By george I did it in the end. One medal please as I am ill with a cold too!

Rhubarb Schnapps

Approximately 1kg rhubarb, to make 600g trimmed weight
300g caster sugar
1 litre of vodka, plus more if needed
2 x 1 litre jars
1 x 1 litre bottle

Chop the rhubarb and divide it between the two jars. Add 150g sugar to each jar, put the lids on and shake well. Unclip the lids and pour 500ml of vodka into each to fill. If that doesn't fill them, then pour in more.

Close the lids, put the rhubarb somewhere cool and dark for at least 6 weeks and up to 6 months. If you remember, shake the jars every other day for the first month or so.

Strain into a jug, then pour into a bottle.

From Nigella Lawson's 'How to be a Domestic Goddess'.

That is definitely my good deed for the day - I don't even drink!

[Nicos]

thanks...thats very kind of you! hope you feel better soon!

[JennieAtkinson]

Beyond the call of duty! Cheers. Hope you feel better soon.
Jennie

[sewer rat]

Rhubarb Schnapps

Excellent. As with Jennie, I seem to have no problem with rhubarb - and there are only so many crumbles and jars of jam I can make, so anything unusual is a bonus - my OH may like this too given the vodke base
Cheers, hope you feel better soon.
Rat

[andrewo]

That's it

The recipe above is exactly the one I use, do remember to shake the bottles every day and filter of the rhubarb after 30-40 days. Tastes like peaches and I have done it with the cheapest vodka going and the taste is wonderful, sweet and deadly - we had three short glasses and we were pretty much dislocated from our legs.

Remember, only the stalks.

Andrewo

[Nicos]

Thanks.....I wonder if this would work with frozen rhubarb??

[Lottie]

Thanks.....I wonder if this would work with frozen rhubarb??

Probably best not to risk it and spoil the vodka. Was thinking that the ice crystals might have changed the structure of it in the freezing process because when it is defrosted it is not the same texture is it?

If you are brave you could give it a try and let us know

We'll all be round for a tasting session!

[andrewo]

Don't know

You could try and see what happens. Doing something similar with blackcurrants for wine.

Andrewo

[Shortie]

Mmmmm.... sounds lovely.... it's the only thing I had in my garden when we moved in last year, and being the only one who eats rhubard in this house most goes to waste... not this year... hhhooooooo nooooooo....

[caz1]

got to try it... it sounds exactly what to make soon as the rhubarb is through, ready just in time for xmas...it will get the parties going with a swing, yum yum....might even tak some to aussie with me....going in october

[andrewo]

Try it

You expect it to taste of rhubarb but it has got a peachy taste, beware though it tastes good and is really strong, last christmas my partner and I were waiting for friends to come to us for dinner and we had three shot glasses in 45 mins and were legless. We answered the door with bright red faces and slurring, how we served the meal I do not know - but surprisingly, no hangover and my rhubarb is starting to come through now!

Andrewo