Recipe for Kumquat Liqueur
Scrub clean and prick about 700g of kumquats with a fork.
Place them in a clean large glass jar with a well fitting lid.
Add 700g of sugar.
Pour in a bottle of brandy then cover with the lid.
Leave in a cool pantry for six months, swishing gently every month or so.
Strain off the liqueur.
The leftover brandied kumquats can be savoured as a dessert.
Anther one:
Homemade Kumquat Liqueur Recipe:
1 pound of fruit, pricked all over with a darning needle
1 pound of sugar
1 pint of brandy Seal.
Place somewhere dark, and with stable temperature (like the back of a cupboard). Exercise great patience, and do not disturb until the sugar has dissolved.
Consume the fruit with icecream. Bottle the liqueur.
----------------------------------------------------------- Homemade Kumquat Liqueur (Chapman) Recipe:
Four litre bottle filled.Total masses approx,but the proportions quite precise.
Cumquats: 1450 gms
Castor sugar: 1450 gms
Prince Albert gin: 1450 gms
Unpeeled cumquats sliced into halves and all constituants placed in the bottle together.The bottle placed in a warm/hot bath (washing up temperature) until the sugar had dissolved.
This process has the advantage that on cooling the bottle seals itself nicely.
Filtered through four layers of cheesecloth.
Squeezed (Wrung) pulp through four layers of cheesecloth and then through the cheesecloth filter.
Difficult to remove all the liquid from the pulp but got most of it .Followed up with two coffee filters.
Three litres output from the full four litre bottle.
A fairly simple process particularly compared with the trouble that I had getting last years single litre through coffee filters!
Cheesecloth is a marvel!
Liqueur still a little cloudy but all recognisable fruit particles have been removed.
It has three months to stand; last years experience indicates that this is ample for good clarity The taste from the licking of fingers through the filter process is brilliant; the bitterness of the cumquats and the sweetness of the sugar nicely buffered. The colour is excellent.
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