Roued

After having to throw away my last batch of fruit snaps in December, because it had gone moldy, I was quite distraught. The problem was that I had in my naivety added to much water to the mixture.
Anyway, not one to make the same mistake twice I decided to make some more and only add the minimum of sugar-water. This time I made: strawberry snaps, gooseberry snaps, redcurrant snaps and licorice snaps. The recipe is as follows for the fruit snaps:

1. Clean the fruit .
2. Buy some cheap vodka (yes they will look strangely at you in the off license when you ask for three bottles of their cheapest vodka).
3. Add the fruit to a jar/bottle and cover with vodka.
4. Leave in cool place for about a week or if you forget it just leave it longer.
5. Filter the fruit of with a sieve and then filter the now coloured liquid with a coffee filter (or piece of muslin cloth if you are a professional like me) just to remove bits and pieces.
6. Mix some sugar in boiling water (whatever way suits you). Probably about 200-250g sugar to 1 liter of water like in the original Lemoncello recipe. Add the sugar-water to the vodka at the rate of 2 vodka to 1 sugar-water. Just enough to make the mixture a little sweet and not pure vodka. But not so much that it goes moldy after a couple of months. Of course you can also drink it fast and then you won’t encounter this problem.
7. Leave in the fridge for about a month and drink.

As for the licorice snaps, for this you will need licorice root.
I am sure I have seen licorice root sticks in the UK. You can buy them in most pharmacies in Denmark. This time around I actually bought some licorice powder, which in Denmark is called “English licorice powder”. I have no idea what it has to do with the English but then again Danish pastry doesn’t have much to do with anything Danish.
So basically you need to mix the vodka with licorice root or powder. I tried once chopping the licorice root but it wasn’t worth the effort and nearly broke my mothers blender. Just pop them in whole.
After a week of standing around you can filter it like above and either dissolve some sugar in the vodka or add some of the sugar-water from above if you want it less strong.

Leave to stand for a week or so and drink it as medicine. It’s great!