How To Make Homemade Liquors Food

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE LIQUORS

Steps:

• Sterilize your jars & allow to cool
• Fill with your fruit to the neck of the jar
• Add sugar
• Pour in your vodka- to the neck of the jar
• Put on lid making sure your seal is tight.
• Add a strip of tape & write the date on it
• Store on the counter - does not have to be a particularly sunny or dark place
• Flip every day for 3 months - once the fruit shrinks & is floating in the liquid it's okay to just give it a good shake everyday
• When the 3 months is up- strain out the fruit pieces through a colander
• To make the brandy more clear- strain again though a coffee filter.
• Transfer to air tight decorative bottles if giving as a gift.

LIMONCELLO

Steps:

• Using a vegetable peeler, remove the peel from the lemons in long strips (reserve the lemons for another use). Using a small sharp knife, trim away the white pith from the lemon peels; discard the pith. Place the lemon peels in a 2-quart pitcher. Pour the vodka over the peels and cover with plastic wrap. Steep the lemon peels in the vodka for 4 days at room temperature.
• Stir the water and sugar in a large saucepan over medium heat until the sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Cool completely. Pour the sugar syrup over the vodka mixture. Cover and let stand at room temperature overnight. Strain the limoncello through a mesh strainer. Discard the peels. Transfer the limoncello to bottles. Seal the bottles and refrigerate until cold, at least 4 hours and up to 1 month.

BANANA LIQUEUR

Steps:

• Peel and mash bananas.
• Combine with the vodka, sugar syrup and vanilla in sterilized, wide-mouth jar.
• Cap the jar and shake gently to mix.
• Let stand in a cool, dark place for 1 week.
• Strain and filter the liquid.
• Transfer clear liqueur to a sterilized bottle.
• Note: To make sugar syrup, bring 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil.
• Simmer, occasionally scraping down the sides of the pan, until the sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes.

CHERRY LIQUEUR

Steps:

• Mix vodka, brandy and sugar in a large glass measure or medium mixing bowl; stir well to dissolve.
• Cut each washed cherry slightly to open, leave in pits.
• Place cherries in two sterile, quart wide mouth jars or one larger aging container.
• Pour liquid mixture over cherries; stir and cap with tight lids.
• For the first two weeks, shake jars several times.
• Let age in a cool, dark place for at least 3 months for best flavor.
• Strain off liqueur through a wire mesh strainer and discard cherries.
• Rebottle as desired.
• Liqueur is ready in 3 months.
• VARIATIONS:Almond-Cherry Liqueur: For a more prominent"almond" flavor, pit all or part of the cherries.
• Place cherry pits in a clean cloth and hit with a hammer to break them up slightly.
• Put broken pits and pitted cherries in jars or large container and continue as directed.
• Sugarless Cherry Liqueur: Substitute 1 cup apple juice concentrate, undiluted, for the sugar in the Cherry Liqueur recipe.
• Proceed as directed.
• The"sugars" present will be natural fruit sugars rather than the granulated processed sugars.
• Taste is excellent; aging is the same.