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Liqueur Vieux Garcon

A recipe for Liqueur Vieux Garcon (Old Boy's Liquor) from the Potlikkr collection. Save it, add the ingredients to your shopping list, and cook it tonight.

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Ingredients

• 750 g
• 1 kg

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Wash fruit, dry them with clean paper towels and remove stones from apricots, peaches and prunes. Do not remove pits from cherries.

2. 2

   Place fruit in stoneware jar.

3. 3

   Add sugar according to quantity of fruit (750 g/kg or 21 oz per 28.3 oz of fruit).

4. 4

   Cover with eau-de-vie.

5. 5

   Close stoneware jar tightly and keep in a cool dry place.

6. 6

   Add more fruit as soon as they are ripe. Adjust fruit/alcohol ratio.

7. 7

   Fill jar up to 2 cm (3/4 inch) from the top. Add alcohol up to the top.

8. 8

   Close tightly and let it rest for at least one month.

9. 9

   Check regularly to make sure no molds develop. Should molds appear, remove them and add more alcohol.

10. 10

    Contributed to the FareShare Gazette by Claudia; 14 August 2006. www.fareshare.net

11. 11

    Nutr. Assoc.: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0