Holiday Entertaining Adult Refreshments

[feather]

I know, so few of us drink alcohol, but it is the holiday and drinks with alcohol are sometimes served. Enjoy if you like.

Apple Pie Moonshine

www.bonappetit.com/recipe/apple-pie-moonshine

Ingredients
4 lemons, halved
2 oranges, halved
3 2-inch pieces ginger, peeled, smashed
3 star anise pods
3 3-inch cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
8 cups apple cider
¾ cup (packed) light brown sugar
1½ cups moonshine or 2 cups vodka or bourbon
2 Pink Lady or Granny Smith apples, quartered

In my 30's we made a recipe for Baileys Irish Cream like this one. But we thinned it out by adding vodka. OH GOD, we were bad 30 year olds. And wow did we pay for it the next day.

Irish Cream

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/245397/grandma-zs-baileys-irish-cream/

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 cup whiskey (such as Seagram's®)
3 eggs
1 1/2 tablespoons chocolate syrup (such as Hershey's®)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon coconut extract

Another favorite that I'd probably enjoy again if I was around wine drinkers.

Fruity Sangria

minimalistbaker.com/5-ingredient-spanish-sangria/

We'd add lemon slices, lime slices, and sparkling water, and keep it cold.

1 750-ml bottle red Spanish wine (we recommend El Cortijillo, Tempranillo 2011)
1 cup fresh orange juice
1 cup pineapple (chopped // 1/2 pineapple yields ~1 cup or 165 g)
1 medium orange (sliced into thin rounds and then halved)
1/2 medium pear (cubed)

And what is missing? Cordials.

Vodka, aged 3 months with sugar and fruit shaking it up every week. Cranberries, or oranges, or lemons, sour cherries, or pears, or apricots, or raspberries, or black berries. Strain and drink in small quantities. Grandma used to like a little cordial on special occasions and she lived a long good life.

[wally]

Feather, thanks for sharing now we gotta try it

[Cabin Fever]

The sangria sounds really good to me.

We've made the fruit liqueurs quite often, sometimes with vodka and sometimes with brandy (it depends on the fruit). My favorites are chokecherry vodka. peach brandy, and blackberry brandy.

We have never tried cranberry. Do you crush the cranberries first?

[feather]

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015759-cranberry-cordial

340 grams sugar (1 1/2 cups)
12 ounces cranberries (3 cups)
1 1-liter bottle vodka
Strips of lime or orange zest (optional)

In this recipe they chopped it up in a food processor and only aged it 2 weeks.

I don't recall making regular cranberry cordial, but I made highbush cranberry cordial when we had those bushes, and it was good. I don't recall breaking them up or not, before aging it.

[Cabin Fever]

Dec 23, 2019 14:52:44 GMT feather said:

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015759-cranberry-cordial

340 grams sugar (1 1/2 cups)
12 ounces cranberries (3 cups)
1 1-liter bottle vodka
Strips of lime or orange zest (optional)

In this recipe they chopped it up in a food processor and only aged it 2 weeks.

I don't recall making regular cranberry cordial, but I made highbush cranberry cordial when we had those bushes, and it was good. I don't recall breaking them up or not, before aging it.

If we made this, we would probably use our "standard" fruit cordial recipe. Coarse chopping the cranberries would be a good idea.

• a liter bottle of vodka (or brandy) that is 1/2 full
• add 1 cup sugar to bottle and shake until dissolved
• fill the remaining space in the bottle with fruit
• store in cool, dark place for at least 1 month, shake every once in a while

One of these days I want to try using dried apricots and brandy.

[solargeek]

We have a party at our house, we make a signature drink to fit the occasion. Not so much fruit liquors EXCEPT I LOVE GIADA DI LAURENTIS' LIMONCELLO and I also have made it with grapefruit.

For example, for Christmas one year we made a sparkling Cosmo with frozen cranberries and a sprig of rosemary floating in the drink. The cranberries kept the drink cold and the rosemary added a great flavor to it. It was the year that Ocean Spray came out with the sparkling cans of cranberry so you could add just a little bit to the vodka. I also put a splash of limoncello that I made in them.

[feather]

Tallpines, I love that crack.
Here's the recipe in case anyone else wants to become an addict.
www.culinaryhill.com/saltine-cracker-candy/

If we made this, we would probably use our "standard" fruit cordial recipe. Coarse chopping the cranberries would be a good idea.

a liter bottle of vodka (or brandy) that is 1/2 full
add 1 cup sugar to bottle and shake until dissolved
fill the remaining space in the bottle with fruit
store in cool, dark place for at least 1 month, shake every once in a while
One of these days I want to try using dried apricots and brandy.

Cabin Fever,
I bet the apricot brandy one would be delicious.
I'm going to use your standard recipe with some leftover cooked cranberries (that's all I have now) and dried orange peel which I've been collecting over the past few months. It will be pretty and very heavy with orange.

[bluemingidiot]

What people find refreshing has always been troublesome for me. Like when a lady says she is going to 'freshen up?' Is she going to take a shower or have a nip?