Currant or Raisin Liqueur (Cassis)
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
1 cup
ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup dried currants or 1 cup raisins
- 2 cups vodka or 2 cups brandy
- 3⁄4 cup sugar syrup (for cassis)
-
Sugar Syrup I
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 cup water
-
Sugar Syrup II
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 cup water
directions
- Boil 1 cup water. Add currants. Cover, turn off heat and let currants plump in hot water for about 5 minutes.
- Drain off water.
- Place currants and alcohol in a tightly closed jar and steep for 1 week.
- Shake jar occasionally during steeping.
- Strain and filter.
- Add enough sugar syrup for cassis, or more for creme de cassis, to your taste. Mature for 2 weeks.
- Either recipe makes 1 cup.
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