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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: "L. J. Smith" <LAURA@server1.fasis.yorku.ca>
- Subject: COLLECTION: Liqueurs
- Message-ID: <94Aug10.114329edt.9217@nexus.yorku.ca>
- Organization: FAS, Yorku University
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 21:36:30 GMT
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- Coffee Liqueur
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- 2 cups of water
- 2 cups of white sugar
- 1/2 cup dry instant coffee (fresh jar)
- 1/2 chopped vanilla bean (or 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract)
- 1 1/2 cups alcohol
- Caramel coloring if desired.
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- Boil the water and sugar until dissolved. Turn off the heat.
- Slowly add dry instant coffee and continue stirring. Add the
- vanilla to the alcohol, then combine the cooled sugar syrup
- and coffee mixture to the alcohol mixture. Cover tightly and
- shake vigorously each day for 3 weeks. Strain and filter (only
- if you have used vanilla bean).
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- NOTE: Vodka will give you Kaluha, Rum will give you Tia Maria,
- and Brandy will give you another version of Kaluha. Grain Alcohol
- will give you a Kaluha like liqueur as well.
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- Irish Cream
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- 1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 pint Half & Half -or- whipping cream
- 2 Tbl Hersheys Chocolate Syrup
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 3/4 cup Whiskey
- 1/4 cup Rum
- 1/4 cup Cream De Cocoa
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- Mix in blender or with wire whip.
- Refrigerate or freeze.
- Serve over crushed ice.
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- Cranberry Liqueur
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- 1 pound fresh cranberries
- sliced and scraped peel of 1/4 orange
- sliced and scraped peel of 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 cups of sugar syrup (recipe follows)
- 1 1/2 cups of alcohol (vodka or grain)
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- Wash cranberries and coarsely chop in blender or food processor.
- Add all the ingredients to the alcohol. Steep for 4 weeks. Strain
- and filter. If more sweetener is required, add more sugar syup to
- taste and mature for another week.
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- Standard Sugar Syrup
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- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup water
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- Put the sugar and water in a sauce pan and heat over a medium
- heat, stirring occasionally until it forms clear liquid. Let it cool.
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