Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

This recipe has proved popular with my taste testers. It has been adapted from the recipe for Raspberry Liqueur (Vargos and Gulling, Cordials from your Kitchen, 1997).

500g frozen cherries
1 cup sugar
1 bottle red moscato ( or other sweet wine)
500ml neutral at 40%
12 allspice berries
6 cardamon pods

Place all ingredients in a large glass jar and leave to infuse for about 4 weeks, stirring now and then.
Strain and bottle.

I remove the spices and freeze the boozy cherries to use in a dessert later.

The basic recipe of frozen fruit, sugar, wine and neutral can be tweaked to your liking.
I have done raspberries with crouchen riesling, bluberries with crouchen riesling, passionfruit with white moscato and mango with white moscato, all without spices. The berries had a stronger flavour than the passionfruit and mango.

I recently bought some DIY teabags in DAISO for my spice infusions to make it easier to remove them.

Cheers
Carol

That’s certainly very interesting, Carol... more of a Ladies Drink!?!

Hi Ezitasting

Yes probably more of a ladies drink.
Most of my taste testers are older ladies but I have had positive comments on the various fruit concoctions from the guys as well.
In summer the passionfruit version was a popular choice with ice and soda.

Cheers
Carol

Sounds good to me Carol! I think I'll be giving this a try when I get home from work :handgestures-thumbupleft: