make your own christmas booze!!

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JulieGeorgiana wrote: »

Claire's Merry Homemade
Cup of condensed milk, cup of double cream, cup of whiskey, tsp of instant coffee, tsp of vanilla extract

Softstuff wrote: »

I make a pretty simple recipe that goes down well. Mix a tin of condensed milk, a tin of evaporated milk, the condensed milk tin full of whisky, a teaspoon of instant coffee - blend. Keeps a few weeks if it lasts that long.

Similar proportions - thanks!

quintwins

thanks i acually just saw those bottles on lakeland and 6 1litre ones on ebay that work out about £5 each (i'm sure i ould ask for them back from most gifties) but now i need to decide if i want to send big bottles or a varity of different things in smaller bottles, thanks for all your help

i think i'll prob just buy a bottle of value whiskey then sure it will be nice and sweet so no-one will notice and it's cheaper :money:

Stephen_Leak

Try this ...

ISLE OF ISLAY CREAM

This recipe comes from the beautiful western Scottish island of Islay (pronounced “eye-luh”), where the peat in the soil and water gives the local Scotch whiskies an earthy taste like Irish whiskey. This was not to some locals liking, so they devised this way of enjoying it.

Makes approx. 1 litre

INGREDIENTS

400g tin of condensed milk
170g tin of evaporated milk
300ml carton of single cream
250ml of Scotch whisky or Irish whiskey
4 teaspoons of coffee essence

METHOD

Pour the milk and cream into a 1 litre jug or bowl.

Use the whisky to wash out the milk and cream containers, then add it to the bowl.

Add the coffee essence.

Stir together.

Pour into a clean 1 litre bottle.

ALTERNATIVES & ADDITIONS

Adjust the amount of coffee essence to taste.

The original recipe specified UHT long-life single cream, but this can now be difficult to find. Use normal single cream instead.

TIPS

Don’t use your best single malt for this. Any cheap supermarket own-brand blend will do.

Keep it in the fridge. However, I don't know how long it will keep for: it’s never stayed around long enough to go off!

quintwins

thanks for all thr recipes a few are very similar but i think i might need to play around with this over the year and taste taste them to see which is best by next xmas i'll let you all know how i get on, gonna have ago at pear cider aswell since we have a pear tree, and i might even do the blackberry liquor they had last night if the ones in my garden acually rippen this year

Mrs_Chip

You could use brandy too, for those that don't like whisky/whiskey (me! )

squeaky

There are some Baileys recipes in this thread:

make your own Christmas booze

Aarons_mummy

There are bits and pieces all over the place on this but I have a 30th birthday bash in January for a really good friend and I have decided to do flavoured vodka. My last attempt didn't work out well and looking at what mine cost and what some of the prices being quoted on here are, I think I must have added too much vodka and not enough 'fillers'.

So does anyone have any recipes, fruits, sweets or otherwise with quantities, costing all that kind of thing. I am on a really tight budget and I would love to do as much as possible (and if anyone can make it happen it's this board!).

Thankyou in advance for hints, tip and any general advice :beer:

Grimbal

we made this spiced orange vodka for presents last year, and it really was lovely. I think we either bought the vodka from Lidl or Tesco (70cl value range vodka is £9), so it was pretty cheap !

(ETA: recipe says 1L vodka makes about 2.5L final product)

Aarons_mummy

That's my problem I think, I tried it before and expected the 1litre of vodka to turn into 1 litre of flavoured vodka which is why it went so gloopy and terrible. Now I see it make more (Duh! Stupid or what ) Looks like I won't have to splash out on as much vodka and stuff as I thought! Thanks

Millie2008_2

According to OH, the best have been skittles, sherbert lemons or werthers originals, added to bottle of vodka and put through the dishwasher.

Cola cubes weren't very successful, apparently!!