The photos that weren’t showing up in my last post… here they are!

separate boozy fruit from boozy juice

take boozy fruit out and chop

fruit in saucepan with sugar, water, lemon, brandy

mix around constantly

cook down mix around

continue to cook down

mashing helps

cool and put in fridge

package nicely and this makes a great gift

Boozy Fruit Filling…
I cannot tell you how to start off the boozy fruit, but I’m sure you can find hundreds of postings online how to do it. My friends method took a few days start to finish, and there’s rules about not wanting them to spoil and proper storage. I’m not a jarring kind of person, but she did one hell of a job! Her fruit was POTENT. Now my task was to transform it into tasty filling. I did each jar and flavor individually. Knowing the alcohol would naturally cook down, I decided to pull out that big ole bottle of brandy in my cabinet that I rarely use and put it to good use. My other items: lemon, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and water. Let the mixology begin! Of note, I ran OUT of boozy fruit so I made my own from scratch. Not as boozy but pretty darn good starting with apples…

I admit I am very generous with the brandy. I started out with equal water to sugar and experimented tasting from there.

Of  note, the boozy fruit juice left over, makes a nice cocktail… more on that later! Stay tuned for part 3 of Heritage Love= the kolache project.