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Anyone infused flowers before? I'm thinking of doing elderflower when they come in (it's spring here) and maybe rose petal in summer.
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Oct 16, 2011 22:40
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Kenning posted:They can work. They infuse better when they've been dried, in my experience, but you could also just through in some flowers and hope for the best. If you're using fresh flowers I would just barely cover them with vodka. With dried you can use substantially less. Fresh will take a week or two, dried will take a couple days. Thanks. I might skip the elderflowers (elderflower cordial ahoy) and just play with roses in summer.
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Oct 17, 2011 21:56
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Bacon and black pepper infused vodka turned out really well. Made it to give away as a Christmas present, but I think I'll make some for me now.
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Dec 16, 2011 05:21
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 What's this? A stupidly overexposed picture of freshly picked roses in a bowl. The pink ones, which you can't see very well, are particularly fragrant. So I ripped their petals off and drowned them in vodka. There clearly weren't enough of them, so I drove around abandoned suburbs (earthquake damage) and picked the most fragrant red roses I could find (yes, I felt guilty). The yellow and pink petals got about 36 hours steeping, the red petals about 24 hours. The result was this  Which I added about a quarter of a cup of 2:1 sugar syrup to. It's really promising. Fragrant, subtle and complex, not in your face like rosewater. The colour's gorgeous. I think it'll take a couple of months ageing to truly come together. It's for a friends birthday on Saturday, so I'll just hope that she believes me about the ageing. Definitely worth doing. I think I'll do cherry blossoms next spring. Edit: Goddamn it, imgur. slinkimalinki fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Jan 25, 2012 |
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Jan 25, 2012 11:38
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The finished product, hangin' out in its natural habitat. My next task is to make an infusion that actually fills the drat bottle once its finished. Go away. You are a cat. You don't even drink vodka. 
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Jan 28, 2012 01:02
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tFUCKINGmesis posted:That looks beautiful, drat. Did you make the label?
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Jan 28, 2012 02:07
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