Rhubarb Schnapps
Finally! It was hard to wait the recommended 6 weeks to taste my rhubarb schnapps, but made cracking open the jar late this afternoon all the more fun. The light, aromatic liquor tastes like sweet-sour cotton candy. I drank my first taste straight, but think it would work nicely with soda water on a hot day or over ice cream.
As long as you have patience, the process couldn't be easier. I took my recipe from Nigella Lawson's How to Be a Domestic Goddess, and the ratio is approximately 2 lbs rhubarb to 1 1/2 cups sugar to 1 liter vodka. Cut the rhubarb into 1 1/2 inch pieces, place in a sterilized jar, add sugar, pour vodka over to fill the jar, cover tightly, and shake, shake, shake. Put the jars somewhere cool and dark for at least 6 weeks (I put mine in the fridge), and shake it well on occasion. And force yourself to wait!
Labels: cocktail
7 Comments:
Sounds wonderful...I'd love to step up to my own "rhub-bar."
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Woooo. I love rhubarb and I do love schnapps :O) What a fantastic idea!
looks amazing..I love rhubarb
Beautiful.
wow, congrats for waiting! i'm glad it paid off!
What did you do with the rhubarb after you'd taken it out?
Some tasty dessert?
My husband and I were gifted several grocery bags of rhubarb this summer, so we cut it into tiny chunks and filled a bunch of 1-gallon jugs half way with it. We added 3 cups of sugar to each jug and topped each one with a 1.75 liter bottle of vodka.
We shook it daily for about a month then hauled it down to the basement. Tonight we triple filtered a sample to take to a Christmas party.
HOLY CATS! It's lovely - light pink, smells like fresh-cut rhubarb and tastes like rhubarb sauce.
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