Day 8 of my Christmas recipes and today I thought I would you some liquid refreshments to make ….they would make a lovely gift in a nice bottle with a bow or some other decoration… make 2 and keep 1 without leaving home a lovely way to beat the Christmas rush…
I hope you enjoy and if you have a favourite homemade Christmas tipple then please let me know…
Irish Cream:
Ingredients:
10 oz Irish Whiskey
1/2 pt whipping cream
1 can condensed milk.
2 eggs.
11/2 tbsp Chocolate syrup.
1/2 tbsp each of, Vanilla Extract, Coconut Extract, and Chocolate Extract.
Blend all ingredients together and refrigerate.
Serve cold and or over Ice.
Now isn’t that easy? and …you can get about 4 batches from one bottle of Irish Whiskey so by my reckoning that’s a real saving and lots of Baileys…yay……
Homemade tonic for your gin???
My favourite Tanqueray Gin no less and a tonic recipe ..you will never ever pull that metal ring and pour it over your gin again…This is sublime, the ultimate in a mixer and just what gin deserves and no I am not including the recipe for you…you will have to pop over to Chez’s blog and find it…haha…….Now you can all guess what I will be making this weekend 😉 If I can get Cinchona bark which gives the quinine flavour of tonic…..but Chez has it covered if you can’t she has given us the link to a man who can!
Limoncello.
Ingredients:
- I litre bottle of your favourite vodka
- 10 Lemons
- 5 cups of water
- 4 cups of granulated sugar
Let’s Brew!
Well, lets cook wasn’t really appropriate …Was it???
First, wash and peel those lemons and put the peels in a glass container ( big) enough to also hold the litre of vodka.
Leave to soak for at least 10 days. then drain off the liquid and dispose of the peels.
Make a syrup by dissolving the sugar in the water, cool and add to the lemon/vodka mixture. using a clean coffee filter strain the liquid…Voila!
You now have your own homemade Limoncello…
This last one is a lovely non-alcoholic apple-based drink.
- 200 ml apple juice
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp whole allspice
- 1 mace blade
- 2 whole cloves
- small strip fresh ginger
- 1 clementine with the peel very finely zested.
- 100 gm golden castor sugar
Let’s Cook!
Heat the apple juice with the whole spices, ginger, clementine zest and sugar. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 10 mins.
Remove from the heat and leave to cool, then strain the syrup into small bottles.
Refrigerate until required and serve in a glass with some apple slices and ice or warm with a stick of cinnamon it is also lovely drizzled over ice cream.
All of these could be given as a lovely Christmas present and everyone loves a gift which is made by your own fair hands much nicer isn’t it????
Until tomorrow when I will be back with some more Christmas treats…
Hi, I love your post. I recently published an article on storing beef. I love to make my own food for New Year!. I will be creating a nice pudding to go with it. The kids will be off school and I am positive they are going to love it.
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Thank you, Shery…I like to hear other cooks stories and what they cook in their kitchens 🙂
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That limoncello recipe is superb! I look forward to trying it myself! Thanks!
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I hope you enjoy Gemmie nd yes it is so easy 🙂
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I wish I had seen this before planning my Twelve days of Christmas book reviews/cocktail pairings! Might have saved me some money! Lol! Or at least would have been an interesting alternative!
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Yes, I probaly should do a week of these quite early but have tried that and not as much respinse as when I publish them later…You can always pin and save for next year or New Year or Easter or..just because 🙂
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Oh, I’m always up to learn new drinks! My whole blog is pairing books with their ‘best served with’ booze or cocktail… So, I’ll need A LOT of them!! 😉
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Yes, I made a note of that…haha
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I’m also a foodie! so, it’s the best of both worlds!
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You have stopped off at the right place then..you just get some chat with the recipes here …I can never just write a recipe out without adding my two penneth…
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Well, I always love some conversation to go with my cooking. So, I thank you!
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Reblogged this on S C Richmond and commented:
How to make Christmas even more special….
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Thank you for the reblog my friend 🙂
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hehehe you know, until I saw the recipe, I thought Limoncello required a trip to Italy. Didn’t know we could make it ourselves. Cheers!
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Until a couple of years ago neither did I Gabe…..It is quite interesting how that much of what we buy is very easy and cost-effective to make at home and no nasties 🙂
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I like the sound of the apple drink, I’d even add a dash of gin.
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That sounds like a plan..Gemma…Nice one! 🙂
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Delightful, Carol, the best thing about Christmas [smile]
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Thankyou, Robbie:)
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Oooh….. the Irish Cream please. First time I’ve ever seen a recipe for it!
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It is lovely Gloria..Just like the shop bought version if not better 🙂
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Your post sets the mood for the Christmas, Carol which is just a fortnight away. I’ll settle for Irish cream! Makes for a great drink on a cold night. 🙂
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It does indeed Arv..Thank you for your kind comment 🙂
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Mmmmm, Limoncello! I always forget about this liqueur but it’s so good. Cheers!
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Yes there is it a lovely drink and so easy to make as well 🙂
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I do make the best Baileys coffee!
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I ‘ll be round for mine in the morning then to taste test…lol
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Oh how I love Irish Cream. One year I made jars of it for my family at Christmas. I think I gained 10lbs that year. I felt that I needed to taste each batch (to be certain that it was good enough to give as a gift to my family). It seems that if you drink several glasses of homemade Irish Cream every day for 2 weeks, you will gain a large amount of weight! Who knew?
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Ummmmmmm….Me!…haha…..But here’s the thing if it wasn’t that it would be something else..We can’t win …Can we???
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Irish Cream was what I usually order right under my uncle’s nose and he thought of course it was some milk drink or whatever hahaha. But whenever we drink at home before (coz I stopped drinking 2 years ago), we go for Bailey’s. Once when a bottle was not enough, my brother concocted a drink made of coffee, cream and whisky. OMG, it tasted great but it caused heart palpitation that we never repeat that mistake again. Lol!
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Sneaky or what..hehe….sounds good to me !
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Yum! Cheers — and hugs.
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Let’s see….Irish Whiskey has alcohol…alcohol kills germs
Two eggs…great source of protein, fats and vitamins
…therefore….drinking during the holidays prevents diseases while providing essential nutritional needs! 😀
How do you like that spin? 🙂
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I Love it and was anticipating something like from you…haha
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Love the idea of home made Limoncello and Irish Cream.
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Both lovely and so easy to make I hadn’t made either until I moved here and was amazed how easy and how much like the shop bought one it was 🙂
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I love Irish Cream, my grandfather used to say that was what helped him survive my childhood.
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Haha…Love it! Mind you I could same about surviving my kids childhoods…And they could tell some tales..haha…
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