{"id":566,"date":"2015-01-23T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnbriner.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-01-10T22:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:41:54","slug":"making-crabapple-liqueur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnbriner.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Making Crabapple Liqueur"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We have three crabapple trees on our property that seem to produce a bumper crop every fall.\u00a0

When I was a kid I remember picking them and helping my mom make crabapple jelly, but it is one of those fruits that you don’t always have that much use for.

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This year I decided to\u00a0make use of the excess crabapple harvest and make a home liqueur from them.

The crabapples on the tree looked amazing – this variety was a smaller variety than I remember as a kid, but they seemed to have the right\u00a0slightly bitter crabapple\u00a0flavor…

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It didn’t take very long to pick enough to get started.

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I headed back in the house, de-stemmed and washed,\u00a0then chopped each crabapple in half.\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t worry about coring them, as I had read that the core and seeds add to the mixture.\u00a0

I\u00a0then placed\u00a0the halved\u00a0crabapples\u00a0in a quart jar until it was nearly full.

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\u00a0I then added\u00a0two cups of sugar and then filled it to the top with vodka (roughly\u00a03 cups).\u00a0

I stored the jar on its side, turning once every day for three weeks to help the sugar to dissolve.\u00a0

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After three weeks, I filtered out the fruit and bottled the finished liqueur.

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The result is quite amazing – the quintessential bitterness of the crabapple pairs perfectly with the vodka and sugar to make a great after-dinner liqueur.<\/p>

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