Another week and another make. We went for a lovely walk along a local canal and took tubs with us, just in case, and luckily we found lots of these...
and with a thrifty, home made Christmas in mind and an offer of five half bottles of vodka I decided to get these together...
and make some of this...
I also plan to make a cranberry version too as I still have two bottles of vodka left. I've made the cranberry one before a few Christmases ago and it went down (excuse the pun) very well. They are such easy things to make, fruit, sugar, vodka and a couple of months of shaking the jars daily at first, then weekly later, a decant through a sieve into bottles and that's it. You can use the drunken fruits up if you like, my father-in-law puts his raspberries which have been steeping for months in gin, in his Christmas trifle. It sure adds a kick!
Here is what it looks like
...the vodka has already taken on the vibrant colour of the brambles and they have plumped up drunkenly with the vodka. I may even try a wee taste of it myself. I have only drunk vodka properly, twice, the first time at uni and my flatmates claimed I became very argumentative and aggressive so I tried it a second time as and experiment and I felt argumentative and aggressive so I haven't partaken in it since but I wonder if I've mellowed with age (it has been fifteen years) and should give it a try again. I did try some scrummy shots in a vodka bar in Edinburgh before uni and I was fine then and I have lovely memories of cola cube, soor plume and chilli flavour shots, ice cold and head clearing.
I got the quantities etc from Nigella's Kitchen book and have a recipe for a cranberry and a lemoncello vodka from old Good Food magazines. If anyone would like them get in touch.
Of course I have assumed you all know brambles are blackberries and you didn't need me to clarify!
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