Making Homemade Liqueurs, Cordials and other alcoholic infusions, is not difficult, the hardest thing is waiting for them to be ready. There are a huge number of homemade liqueur recipes to try from simple fruit liqueurs such as limoncello, to more common liqueurs such as your own version of Baileys, Kahlua, Amaretto and Advocaat.
Some liqueurs can be ready in a matter of days such ones made with strawberries or nearly a year with fruits like sloe. The process is usually just infusing fruit and/or other ingredients in strong alcohol such as Vodka, Gin, or even Whisky with sugar and leaving it in a dark, cool cupboard for it to mature.
Jun 24
Fresh picked peaches are one of the finest fruits to be enjoyed. Once you have had filled your craving of fresh peaches, having made peach jam, sorbet, ice cream and even baked a dessert or two, what else can you do with the extra peaches? How does one capture the essence of a perfectly sun …
Jun 08
In December last year, our friend Deborah delivered about 50lbs of oranges from her father’s orange grove in East Texas to us, after we had been talking about making fruit liqueurs. Little did I know how much we were going to get. Unlike other fruit such as apples, peaches or berries, there is only so …
May 26
The third homemade liqueur that I ever attempted was using Dried Apricots. It was at a point where I was more interested making any type of homemade liqueur in the kitchen and there was no local fresh fruit in season. The result was something between a kiss from the sun and a gift from the …
May 16
An expanded post on how to make Homemade Peach Liqueur has now been added to our website With last four pounds of remaining peaches, a double batch of Homemade Peach Liqueur has been brought together (Fresh Sliced peaches, 100 Proof Vodka, Brandy, Sugar and Water) and will now steep for the next three week. Through …
Apr 19
As anyone will know who has rhubarb in their garden, you can’t get rid of the stuff. No matter how hard you try to dig up the roots and either throw it away or give it to a friends, it keeps on coming back. Once it has a foothold in your garden then it can …
