Cranberry Liqueur

Name: Cranberry Liqueur
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 840 h
Total time: 840 h 30 min
Yield: 1 pint
Ingredients: 1 lb fresh cranberries; 1 cup good vodka; 1 1/4 cups sugar syrup (see note); 1 teaspoon grated orange zest

Submitted by seahorse73

"You can use this in your Cosmopolitian, Sea Breeze cocktails."

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Ready In:: 840hrs 30mins
Ingredients:: 4
Yields:: 1 pint

ingredients

1 lb fresh cranberries
1 cup good vodka
1 ¹⁄₄ cups sugar syrup (see note)
1 teaspoon grated orange zest

directions

Rinse and pick over the cranberries, discarding stems and any soft or shriveled berries.
Chop berries in a blender.
In a sterile, wide-mouth jar, combine the cranberries, vodka, sugar syrup and orange zest.
Cap, shake gently and set aside in a cool dark place for 4 to 5 weeks.
When ready to proceed, strain out the solids and save for other uses (cakes, sauces or relish).
Filter and transfer to another sterilized bottle.
Note: To make sugar syrup, bring 1 1/4 cups sugar and 2/3 cup water to a boil.
Simmer, occasionally stirring and scraping down the sides of the pan, until the sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes.

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Made this for gift-giving, with Wolfshmidt 100 proof- lovely color, but POTENT. We've been jokingly calling it "cranberry hootch"! Tasty stuff.

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