I harvested a glut of raspberries from my dad's garden yesterday, beautiful big red, ripe and very tasty raspberries. We decided to split them into three categories for eating, top bowl, squashy and very ripe ones for eating, middle bowl, perfect condition ones for freezing and good quality, last bowl, were a bit riper for some raspberry vodka!! Yes indeedy! This is my first time making the vodka with raspberries. I had a look on the internet and found the recipe below (http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/raspberry-vodka-recipe-362/), however I just followed my gut on this one! So, split the vodka evenly between 2 bottles (It was a 0.7l sized bottle of Lidl's finest vodka!) Fill to nearly full with raspberries (you are supposed to wash them, I didn't, I think it very quickly reduces the quality of the raspberry), it doesn't matter if they get squashed on the way in, and then finish off with 8-10 tsp of organic cane sugar (I am actually making a dent in my 25kg bag of sugar!). Store in dark, dry, cool place and leave for at least 3 months. Turn/shake occasionally to get the sugar to dissolve into the liquid. Taste every now and then and add more sugar if needed.
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