Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, brandy-soaked mixed dried fruit. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Stir with a dry spoon every couple of days. Brandy is a strong alcoholic spirit made from fermented fruit juice or distilled wine. It has natural warming properties mixed with relaxing quality that induces healthy sleep.
Brandy-Soaked Mixed Dried Fruit is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Brandy-Soaked Mixed Dried Fruit is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have brandy-soaked mixed dried fruit using 3 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Brandy-Soaked Mixed Dried Fruit:
- Take 1 Dried fruits (of your choice)
- Take 1 Rum or brandy
- Get 1 Airtight container (jar etc.)
Packed with real dried fruits, and loads of brandy, this will make you and your family a believer in real fruit cake! In a large airtight container, soak all dried fruits in ¾ cup Brandy. Marinate over night, turning fruit frequently to ensure it is all evenly marinated. Dry fruits soaked in rum/brandy is an yearly Christmas ritual for me, where I collect dry fruits and soak in rum, to make fruit cake for Christmas.
Steps to make Brandy-Soaked Mixed Dried Fruit:
- Boil water in a large pan to cover the air-tight jar. Immerse the jar and lid in the boiling water and boil for about 5 minutes. Air dry on a clean cloth or rack.
- Put dry fruit in the jar. (Finely chop them if necessary.)
- Pour rum or brandy of your liking into the jar until the dry fruit are just covered.
- Stir well with a spoon etc. Seal with a lid and rest in a cool dark place for about a week until the dry fruit absorb the liqueur well.
- Point 1: Stir well with a clean spoon etc before you eat.
- Point 2: It's better to store the jar at where it keeps the same temperature thorough a year, so I keep the jar at the back of the refrigerator.
- Point 3: Top up the dry fruit and liqueur after you consume some of the fruit or if you have extra dry fruit, then you can enjoy this dessert forever.
- Recommended dried fruit: Various kinds of raisins, figs, orange peel, apricots and cranberries.
Stirring them several times during the day. I soaked my dried fruit mix in rum and I used rum instead of brandy. Griottines Cherries by Peureux are sour Morello cherries soaked in sweet Kirsch and Griottines Cherries in Brandy. Dried fruit brandy is a potable alcoholic distillate, or a mixture of potable alcoholic distillates, obtained from sound dried fruit. Greek brandy is distilled from Muscat wine.
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