Get ready for the fruit season...
You need: a large earthenware pot with lid, any seasonal fruit, sugar in the same proportion as you add fruit, rum
I started off with strawberries and raspberries, but added other fruit like black berries, peach, acid cherries, plum, pear etc. as the season progressed. There is plenty of opportunity to experiment.
Place the fruit into the earthenware pot, add the same weight again in sugar (can be more or less depending on your taste), pour in the rum until the fruit are well covered. Add more fruit as time goes by and top up the sugar and rum accordingly.
After a little while the fruit will start to swim at the top and look as if it ferments - that's OK. Give it a stir and be patient.
You can start drinking this after about a month, but it gets better the longer you leave it - if you can resist The licquior should taste fruity and not be as firey as the rum anymore. The fruit can be served as part fo the drink (like a punch) or drained to go into deserts like trifles or gateaux. Watch out, this can really get you tipsy!
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Thanks bigbun!!!
