Post by auriela on Dec 30, 2013 0:43:19 GMT
Rowan Schnapps
Rowan schnapps - based on fresh and fully ripe rowan berries - has a unique, sweet-acid and slightly bitter taste with notes of crab apple, rose hip, and a little strawberry. The colour is pale red.
Excellent as appetizer or in combination with honey schnapps.
Serve with venison meat, other game dishes, and pork, poultry, desserts, cheese and cheese cakes.
Or use the schnapps in jellies, sauces and stews.
Or try to combine rowan schnapps with maple schnapps, rose schnapps - and dandelion root schnapps.
Recipe
Use fresh and fully ripe rowan berries.
Pick them right after the first frost. But before the birds eat them. Put them in the freezer for a couple of days.
Frost makes rowan berries milder and sweeter.
Direction:
• Rinse the berries carefully and remove all stems.
• Leave them to dry in the shadow - on paper towel.
• Freeze them for a week or more.
• Put 80 centiliter frozen berries in a clean glass jar with tight fitting lid.
• Cover the berries with approx. 35 centiliter clear, unflavored vodka - 40% alcohol content (80 proof).
• Steep for 1-4 weeks or more in a dark place at room temperature, 18-20°C (64-68°F).
• Shake lightly and taste it from time to time.
• Strain and filter your infusion into a clean glass bottle or jar with tight-fitting lid.
• Store (age) for at least 2 months in a dark place at room temperature before serving.
Note: If for some reason you are not satisfied with your infusion, there are ways to adjust both taste and flavours.
Serve your rowan schnapps at room temperature remember to keep your schnapps bottle tightly closed and in a dark place before and between servings.
Rowan schnapps - based on fresh and fully ripe rowan berries - has a unique, sweet-acid and slightly bitter taste with notes of crab apple, rose hip, and a little strawberry. The colour is pale red.
Excellent as appetizer or in combination with honey schnapps.
Serve with venison meat, other game dishes, and pork, poultry, desserts, cheese and cheese cakes.
Or use the schnapps in jellies, sauces and stews.
Or try to combine rowan schnapps with maple schnapps, rose schnapps - and dandelion root schnapps.
Recipe
Use fresh and fully ripe rowan berries.
Pick them right after the first frost. But before the birds eat them. Put them in the freezer for a couple of days.
Frost makes rowan berries milder and sweeter.
Direction:
• Rinse the berries carefully and remove all stems.
• Leave them to dry in the shadow - on paper towel.
• Freeze them for a week or more.
• Put 80 centiliter frozen berries in a clean glass jar with tight fitting lid.
• Cover the berries with approx. 35 centiliter clear, unflavored vodka - 40% alcohol content (80 proof).
• Steep for 1-4 weeks or more in a dark place at room temperature, 18-20°C (64-68°F).
• Shake lightly and taste it from time to time.
• Strain and filter your infusion into a clean glass bottle or jar with tight-fitting lid.
• Store (age) for at least 2 months in a dark place at room temperature before serving.
Note: If for some reason you are not satisfied with your infusion, there are ways to adjust both taste and flavours.
Serve your rowan schnapps at room temperature remember to keep your schnapps bottle tightly closed and in a dark place before and between servings.