Spiced apple vodka

[oldbloke]

I've just chucked a bottle of cheap vodka into a big jar with:
5 dessert apples, cored and sliced
2 cinnamon sticks
2 cloves
2 cardamom pods

Should I thaw some root ginger and bung a few slices of that in too, do you think?

 

[RobWalker]

mmm that sounds lovely. i'd say that would be enough spice though, what about putting a little sugar in? brown maybe?

 

[oldbloke]

Well...
We tend to use a sweet mixer with all our flavoured spirits, so we've stopped bothering to add sugar to the recipes themselves.
And, we took some vodka off a chopped up pineapple the other night and it had sucked all the sugars out of the fruit as well as the flavour, so hopefully this one will do the same with the apple.

 

[kate]

Pineapple vodka sounds lovely! Did you just pour vodka over chopped fresh pineapple and leave it?

 

[oldbloke]

Yes!
We bought a pineapple and mysteriously failed to have it for dessert (with or without icecream) for a couple of weeks, so decided to chop it up and chuck it in a jar with vodka. 2 weeks later, yummy - it's a quick one!

 

[kate]

One pineapple added to my shopping list then!

 

[Badger]

Sounds good man!

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

How did the vodka turn out, OB?

 

[oldbloke]

It's rather nice. Herself has had most of it, though.