Strawberry liqueur

Ingredients for 5 servings:

• 1,750 g strawberries, fresh or frozen
• 500 g sugar
• 5 packs of vanilla sugar
• 700 ml rum (54%)
• n. B. water

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 20 minutes

this time hot

Instead of strawberries, you can also use other berries, such as blackberries, elderberries, or currants. Plums or damsons can also be used. The sugar may then need to be adjusted. I find that with strawberries, for example, you can safely use frozen fruit. It’s less work and there’s no waste. Since the fruit cooks down anyway, I can put it straight from the bag into the pot. Boil the fruit with around 1 to 1.5 liters of water (this depends on the juice content of the fruit). Let it simmer for around 10 minutes. Then press the whole thing through a sieve (if you don’t like the seeds) or puree it with a hand blender. Then boil the juice, sugar, and vanilla sugar for another 10 minutes. Remove from the heat, add the rum, and stir with a wooden spoon to distribute the rum. Then fill the whole thing into thick-walled glass bottles while it’s still as hot as possible. This works, for example, in a glass bottle. For example, you can use reusable sparkling water bottles, or you can buy (or have) other attractive bottles. Please replace the aluminum cap with a plastic one from a Coke bottle (any other soda will do, of course). The alcohol and the hot bottling ensure that the liqueur keeps for a very long time. It also goes well with vanilla ice cream or pudding. It’s also delicious warm, but it can quickly go to your head.