blackcurrant vodka?

[janeyo]

does anyone have a recipe for this?
I found one for snapps but it doesn't use sugar and I thought you always added sugar

Thanks

[Hilary B]

There are sugar containing recipes, and non-sugar recipes, but the principle is always the same.
I make sloe gin each year, and I don't measure anything! The same approach should work for most fruit/booze combinations.
In a nice big jar (the ones I use originally had olives in, like a jam jar but about double the height) put clean fruit to loosely fill jar.
Pour over enough sugar to look as though it has filled the spaces, THEN shake the sugar down. Put lid on, sjake violently, leave somewhere warm for 48 hours (airing cupboard or sunny windowsill...)
Pour in as much of the booze as will fit, stir, leave in warm place (it can be tricky getting all the sugar dissolved, but it doesn't have to all dissolve the first day). Stir daily for a week, then weekly for a month. The time will vary with fruit type (the harder the fruit, the longer it will take, I leave sloes for about 3 months in all, really soft fruit may be ready to bottle after the first week).
When there is no undissolved sugar, and the liquid is a lovely colour, strain and bottle. Some types of fruit can be used in cooking after the extraction process.

[bobleponge]

Janeyo, I did some blackberry brandy a couple of years ago, and added no sugar at all. The natural sugars in the fruit made it work perfectly.
Just shoved loads of blackberries into a bottle, and filled it with the brandy. Left for best part of a year I think (was a toughie) but was gorgeous when I drank it.
Once it was all gone, and I could no longer see or remember my own name, I made ice cream with the blackberries. Tops!!

[palborn]

I want to make plum vodka, do you think they'll need extra sugaring? Maybe I'll try one with and one without and do a pepsi challenge.

[rustylady]

I just made cherry vodka with some black cherries that I wasn't able to eat quickly enough fresh. Add sugar to taste - if you don't like it sweet don't add any. It can always be added later if necessary. The alcohol preserves the fruit.

[Alison]

I've got raspberry vodka on the go which involves a kilner jar full of raspberries, I then covered the surface of the fruit in sugar and topped up with vodka. Shook a lot every few days for about a week or so until all the sugar had disolved and then left in a dark cupboard for (so far) about a month or two. Will be decanting in the next few weeks when I get round to it and it'll make a lovely pale pink drink. Made some rhubarb by the same means earlier in the year and some blackberry bacardi which is also very good.

[janeyo]

I filled a decent sized jar with blackcurrants. The filled all the gaps with sugar. The filled it up with vodkas. I shook it daily for a week and it's now waiting til xmas to be sampled...

[Madmac]

Silly question but do you screw a cap back on or does it need to ferment with a bubbler. Thinking of going for blackberry Vodka, seeing as I've just found an unused bottle in the back of the cupboard.

[bobleponge]

Madmac,
I have 2 ways of doing it, depending on what I want to do with the bottle/fruit afterwards.
Either straight in the bottle with the lid screwed back on, or if I want the fruit, or the fruit is too big (rhubarb) I do it in Kilner type jars, and then pour the liquid back into the bottles once ready.
Never used an airlock though and nothings exploded.
Yet...

[Scottishnewbie]

left over raspberries

what do you do with the left over raspberries once you've taken the vodka off?

just done some today ready for festive hampers and find i have a whole load of pale pink raspberries left over....hate to see waste!

[smallblueplanet]

Put em in the bottom of a trifle? (Last year I froze some of our 'gin'd rasps until xmas!)

[Scottishnewbie]

oh that's a fine idea, i like that one a lot.......thanks

[ophiopogon]

When you make wine do you leave the fruit in the finished product or dou get rid of the fruit

[Polly Fouracre]

[QUOTE=Scottishnewbie;568878]what do you do with the left over raspberries once you've taken the vodka off?

just done some today ready for festive hampers and find i have a whole load of pale pink raspberries left over....hate to see waste![/QUOTE

Eat them with a bit of sugar and some cream1 don't drive afterwards though.

[Scottishnewbie]

[QUOTE=Polly Fouracre;574481]

what do you do with the left over raspberries once you've taken the vodka off?

just done some today ready for festive hampers and find i have a whole load of pale pink raspberries left over....hate to see waste![/QUOTE

Eat them with a bit of sugar and some cream1 don't drive afterwards though.

mine are in the freezer ready to be brought out to make a christmas trifle in a couple of weeks...........hic!