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Some fruit will float and that is okay. 1 hour 30 minutes.
Add 2-3 cups vodka or brandy or enough to cover the fruit.
Preserving plums in vodka. In order to make a really good vodka liqueur it is necessary to cut the plums in half and remove the pit. This will allow the vodka to penetrate into the fruit much faster and allow the sugars from the plums to flavor the vodka. I promise that this liqueur is going to taste amazing.
Wash plums well and layer them in the jar with sugar. With three ingredients you can make a whole range of different varieties of alcohol preserved fruit. All you need to do is switch out the spirit you are using vodka gin brandy rum and then the fruit.
Plums strawberries cherries oranges and you can make a whole variety of different preserved fruits in alcohol. Add 2-3 cups vodka or brandy or enough to cover the fruit. Some fruit will float and that is okay.
Add any spices that you wish. Stir the mixture and cover the container tightly. Preserving Fruit in Alcohol.
I have a paranoia around canningBefore you give me flack I recognize it is a useful thing and the following is just my opinionI never thought about it until recently but botulism is a surefire way to die in any kind of situation where you can. Hot pack Add plums to water or hot syrup and boil 2 minutes. Cover saucepan and let stand 20 to 30 minutes.
Fill jars with hot plums and cooking liquid or syrup leaving 12 inch headspace. Raw pack Fill jars with raw plums packing firmly. Bottling plums and stone fruit is the perfect way to preserve the summer harvest to enjoy all year round.
If you are new to bottling fruit here is an easy to follow step by step tutorial on exactly how to do it. 42 from 5 votes. 1 hour 30 minutes.
Preserving in alcohol is one of the oldest and easiest preserving methods with no need for even water bath canning. And there would be of course a slightly decadent fringe benefit. I pitted and sliced the pluots then soaked them in brandy mixed with sugar cinnamon and vanilla.
The only hard part was waiting weeks until they were ready. Drunken Plums in Vodka City Boy Hens I thought the name was funny. Vodka is a good ingredient to learn to infuse with as it has little flavour so its difficult to mess up.
Infuse Your Booze Northwest Edible Life A fantastic primer on all sorts of infusing they reccomend putting plums and cinamon in brandy. An easy and fun method of preserving summer fruit is with alcohol. I prefer brandy or vodka and almost any fruit can be used.
I have only tried cherries and berries personally but many others use citrus all stone fruits cranberries strawberries and apples. RUMTOPF is a traditional way to preserve fruit in alcohol. While rum is traditional hence the name it can also be made with other spirits like Vodka Brandy.
So long as the alcohol is high enough and the fruits remain covered in the liquid. It lasts for years in a cool dark place and gets better the longer it is allowed to steep. Vegetables to use when preserving with vodka include green beans carrots onions and peppers.
Fruits include apples pears peaches and plums. You can also preserve spices such as ginger and hot peppers. This process has the added advantage of creating a flavorful infused vodka.
For Amy Pennington a professional gardener in Seattle and the author of The Urban Pantry Skipstone 2010 using booze to preserve fruit. Please leave a like if you enjoyed this video. Comment on what youd like to see in future videos and subscribe for moreRecipe adapted from Mrs Beetons How.
Firmy pack as many cherries as you can into the jar without smashing up the fruit. Fill the jar with vodka leaving a 14 headspace. Seal up the jar.
There is no need to sterilize the jar because the vodka will act as a preservative for the cherries. Now put it aside in your cantina or cold cellar and WAIT. You got to give those.