This pineapple liqueur is delightful turned into a long drink with cold lemonade, but is equally indulgent neat. It has a tropical taste; we were surprised at just how strong the pineapple flavour was - it's zingy and refreshing. There's also a warming burn of booze - not rough but punchy!
Here’s what you need:
2 cups fresh pineapple cut into chunks (we found that a large pot of ready prepared pineapple from M&S was just enough)
1 ½ cups vodka (we used Smirnoff Blue)
½ cup Polish pure spirit
½ cup sugar syrup
NB. If you don’t wish to use Polish pure spirit, simply replace it with extra vodka.
Place the pineapple, vodka and Polish pure spirit in a kilner jar and leave for 1 week, ideally somewhere cool and out of direct sun:
When the week is up, strain the mix and mash the pineapple so as to get all the juice and flavour from it:
Do this several times until the liquid is free of any pulp. We found that lining the sieve with a butter muslin (you could use a coffee filter but this can get clogged) filtered the liquid very effectively.
Add the sugar syrup and leave to mature for a month:
Bottle your now-potable liqueur!
Cheers!
Time to make, from start to potable: 5 weeks
Yield: approx 2 cups/500ml
2 comments:
Hello there Mr & Mrs Potable. The Caked Crusader suggested I stop by. Am very glad I did as I am quite intrigued by the pineapple liquer.
Just love the idea of this blog... although pineapple liqueur sounds terrifying!
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