Fruit Liqueurs

Name: Fruit Liqueurs
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Makes 1 litre (1¾ pints)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: strawberries, hulled; kumquats, pricked; mirabelle plums, pricked; apricots, pricked; pears, quartered; pineapple, peeled and sliced across; raspberries; blackcurrants; greengages, pricked with a darning needle; dried prunes, soaked, e.g., in Earl Grey tea; dried apricots, soaked, e.g., in tea; grated quinces, skin, core and all; peaches, halved, the stones cracked with a hammer; orange or tangerine peel; nectarines, halved, the stones cracked; cherries, pricked, leave a 5 mm (¼-inch) stalk

Preparation info

Makes
1 litre

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
10 min

Appears in

The Cooking of Normandy

By Jane Grigson

Published 1987

About

You do not need recipes to make fruit liqueurs, just an understanding of how the method works. With a little experience you can begin to make up your own variations.

Method

Fill a 1-litre (1¾ pint) bottling jar with one of the following fruit:

strawberries, hulled