Let's Talk BBQ
Spriited Discussions => SPIRITED DISCUSSIONS => Topic started by: ACW3 on July 06, 2015, 08:05:40 PM
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I want to thank Gene (Hikerman) for putting me onto yet another use for my SV pool. With his suggestion, I wanted to try infusing fruit into another alcohol. I have done strawberries successfully with vodka. Recently I finally found some fresh sweet cherries to try with some rye. I cut 3 pounds of beautiful looking sweet cherries in half and removed the stone in each. I mashed them up and split them between 2 quart jars. I split the rye between the two jars. Into the pool at 155 degrees. Gene recommended 160 for 2 hours, but I couldn’t get my setup to go above 155. So, I added another 30 minutes to my swim. Plunged the jars into an ice bath to cool everyone down.
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The last step was to strain the good juice out of the jars and get ready to make a new version of an old favorite of mine, an Old Fashioned.
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In an old fashioned glass place 1 tsp brown sugar. Add 2 - 3 dashes of bitters (I used Peychaud’s Bitters) and a small splash of club soda (or in my case, a splash of water). Stir to dissolve sugar. Add ice and top off with cherry-infused rye. Sit back and enjoy!!
Art
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That sure sounds like it would be good.
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Hey Art.....cheers buddy! ;)
In this Old Fashioned I put 1 tsp maple syrup and doubled up the bitters! A winner. The sweet plays off the bitter real nice.
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Perfect!
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Very nice!
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Looks good Art!!! Years ago a neighbor gave me a sample of her Cherry Bounce. She gave me a small glass and that stuff went to your blood quick. Her recipe was Place a pound of cherries w/pits in a gallon jug, add one pound of rock candy and a fifth of Kesslers whiskey, and she said you had to use Kesslers! Let set for 3 months then strain and enjoy. I was always going to make it but never did. Don
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Looks good Art years ago a neighbor gave me a sample of her Cherry Bounce. She gave me a small glass and that stuff went to your blood quick. Her recipe was Place a pound of cherries w/pits in a gallon jug, add one pound of rock candy and a fifth of Kesslers whiskey, and she said you had to use Kesslers! Let set for 3 months then strain and enjoy. I was always going to make it but never did. Don
Don I make a version of the recipe you describe. It is called Cherry Wishniak. Uses a lb. of cherries, a cup or two of sugar,
and brandy. It was a regular component of ice fishing! Kept the chill off! :D