Does alcohol go off?

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As Lowesy says, No chance in my house either.I don't think I ever have had a bottle of gin for that long. Saying that we did by a bottle of 21 year old scotch in Tomintoul when my DD's were 8 & 6 and opened it 12 years later when my youngest DD got married and it was very nice (what I can remember of it)
I have an opened bottle of Cointreau in the back of my larder that has been there for over six years as my late husband loved it on pancakes.I don't drink the stuff myself but can't find it in me to bin it,I would think it would taste a bit odd by now though.

lolarentt

Pretty serious!! Sounds to me like it needs finishing quickly - what's your address, we'll come round and help you out....or I'll swop for something called Limoncello (from Sorrento) that nobody will touch!!

debtdesperado

oooh limoncello is lovely... you can use it in baking to make cakes lemony and alcoholic. Can't remember where I saw a recipe but try googling it. I think you can also use it in lemon cheesecake. Or turn it into sorbet?

debtdesperado

Also thinking about it, Delia in her christmas programme when talking about the spirits in her christmas cake/pudding said that they are expensive the first year, as you only use a little bit of each but will keep for years...

lolarentt

debtdesperado wrote: »

oooh limoncello is lovely... you can use it in baking to make cakes lemony and alcoholic. Can't remember where I saw a recipe but try googling it. I think you can also use it in lemon cheesecake. Or turn it into sorbet?

Good thinking! There's hope for it yet then - sorbet sounds a good idea, I'll dig out the Magimix

dandy-candy

Thanks for the replies....nipping out to buy some tonic water now.....!

Dollardog

Limoncello is also lovely on ice cream, Aldi sell it from time to time,

I love cointreau and you've just reminded me I have a bottle. Its wonderful on pancakes with icing sugar sprinkled over, like they do them in Holland with the tiny pancakes.
Come to think of it, I bet Limoncello would be nice on pancakes too.

Dollardog

When I went for a meal in a restaurant near Newbury a while ago, they had a wonderful dessert.
It was lemon sorbet with vodka poured over, they called it something like 'Sorbetini'. It was lovely, like eating a vodka and bitter lemon!!.
Bet you could do that with gin too, although I haven't tried it.

jaybee

I'll come round and try it for you, if you like!!!!

BitterAndTwisted

A Sorbetini! That's pure genius, that is.