Shrubs, or drinking vinegar, are delicious, tangy, and refreshingly thirst-quenching drinks that you can make at home. Try this Berry Shrub recipe over ice!
Manhattan Beach's Love & Salt has a homemade version of the classic Italian after dinner drink limoncello made with calamansi, an unsung seasonal California citrus. Get the recipe here.
You can easily make your own feijoa liqueur.
When life gives you peaches, make this recipe to enjoy the fresh taste of peaches with cocktails. It takes four weeks to age, so plan ahead.
Amortentia is a powerful love potion. It's a non alcoholic, fruit based & drool-worthy drink that's sure to surprise your love one this Valentine's day!
Raspberry wine captures the flavor (and stunning color) of fresh summer raspberries for year-round sipping. Raspberry wine is absolutely spectacular, and the fruit flavors really shine through in the finished wine. Raspberries are naturally tart
From berries to bananas and even potatoes, explore exciting fruit, flower, and vegetable wines you can try making at home.
I found this recipe in an old Easy Living Magazine I was flicking through last week - it was featured as an idea for homemade gormet picnic foods. Whilst I have no upcoming picnic plans I was inspired to give this recipe a go - I'm not a massive fan of fizzy soft drinks so I mostly drink water, cordials/squash and tea whilst at home. My family gets through numerous bottles of Robinson's orange squash and Bottlegreen's elderflower cordial! So trying to make my own cordial really appealed to me for a bit of a change. I'd never made a homemade cordial before, and didn't realise how easy it is to do. The cordial tasted delicious and my family loved it - it wasn't long before it was all gone! I really liked the passion fruit flavour too - when I looked in my local Sainsbury's store there weren't any similar flavours to this, so it was definately more of an exotic flavour to the standard orange squash I normally drink! Recipe - Passion Fruit & Orange Cordial Makes about 750ml Ingredients: 375g sugar (I used white caster) 6 oranges 3 passion fruit Method: 1. Add the sugar and 375ml of water to a saucepan. Add the zest of one of the oranges to the pan and bring the mixture to the boil - simmer for about 5 minutes, stirring every so often to dissolve the sugar. 2. Squeeze the juice from all the oranges and scoop out the pulp from the 3 passion fruit. Add this to the saucepan and allow the mixture to cool. 3. Once cool, strain the mixture and put it into a bottle. I didn't have anything of a suitable size, so used a couple of empty gin bottles that my mum normally uses for making sloe gin for christmas! You can dilute the cordial with either still or sparkling water - it will keep for up to 5 days in a sealed bottle in the fridge. Make sure you give the bottle a bit of a shake before each serving, then dilute to your preferred strength. Lisa x Tweet
From berries to bananas and even potatoes, explore exciting fruit, flower, and vegetable wines you can try making at home.
Traditional Brazilian drink made with the whole lime with a creamy, frothy texture.
Raspberry wine captures the flavor (and stunning color) of fresh summer raspberries for year-round sipping. Raspberry wine is absolutely spectacular, and the fruit flavors really shine through in the finished wine. Raspberries are naturally tart
Cherry wine is a refreshing way to enjoy the fruits of summer.
Given the title of this blog, it is fitting that my first post deals with passionfruit. My generous neighbour, Renate, recently gave me a couple of bags of passionfruit from her prolific vi…
Have you ever made a fruit liqueur or cordial? I never have, but I recently came into possession of two very nice quince fruits, and I wanted to hold on to their flavor as long as possible. We have had poor luck with quince, here at The Kitchn, and I wanted to do something long-lasting and relatively foolproof.So when I came across a recipe for quince ratafia in Jane Grigson’s Good Things, I was intrigued.
Aronia wine is the perfect way to use aronia berries in season, and it also works with storebought aronia juice.
A combination of tart fresh apricots and sweet dried apricots make for the tasty and complex apricot liqueur.
Fancy making a lovely drink but there's no fresh fruit around? Even during the winter months you can make some wonderful homemade drinks from dried fruit. Here's a beautiful recipe for Homemade Apricot Liqueur which is easy to make, and lovely enough to give away as gifts.
Passion fruit Lemonade is a tasty and fun twist on homemade lemonade. Fresh squeezed lemons and passion fruit come together to make a refreshing lemonade everyone will love. Only 4 ingredients needed to make this refreshing lemonade!
I love experimenting with home-infused alcohol. My friends Tim and Aaron turned me on to this homemade rhubarb vodka recipe. Rhubarb is in season right now, and although I love it in pies and jams, I wanted to try it in beverage form.This recipe is very easy to make, and my big jar of rhubodka is sitting next to the jars of Japanese plum wine I made a month ago, waiting to be ready for consumption.Rhubodka1 1.75-liter bottle of vodka – Tim says the bottom shelf cheap vodka is fine.
