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[Guest]

I've bought muslin and special bags for making jelly and find that the liquid won't go thru the material properly. We also use them for straining off fruit vodkas and they're a nightmare and we usually end up pinching the filter out of the coffee machine and using that! What am i doing wrong?

[Christian]

It could be the fruit pulp blocking the holes. If you aren't making jelly, then you could use a spoon to 'encourage' the liquid through.....

[chickencam]

I think with most muslin or jelly bags you are supposed to leave them overnight, to drip slowly which means you get a clear jelly.

[BeckyBoo]

I use muslin cloths from mothercare! It was all I had at the time and stuff does take an age to drip through. Other than that, not sure. Is it new muslin? Would it help if it went through a wash first?

 

BeckyBoo

[Lesley]

I tip the mush through a sieve and only use the jelly bag if I want a really clear jelly - most of the time I'm happy to have a 'near clear' one.

 

I've got some Pear and Vanilla Vodka to remove the fruit from, I'll just use the sieve. The fruit mush should be nice with ice-cream later.....yummmmmmm

[Guest]

ok, thanks, looks like a sieve first then the bag.

[Lavenders_Blue]

Wow Lesley, pear and vanilla vodka sounds delicious! Could you please post your recipe (if you use one?).

 

I have sloe vodka and raspberry vodka steeping at the moment, hopefully it will be ready in time for Christmas, but I think I'd like to have a go at pear and vanilla too!

[chickencam]

We bottled our sloe gin and raspberry vodka the other night and they are both delish

[Lavenders_Blue]

I know it does slip down rather easily doesn't it?

I am itching for mine to be ready as hubby and I have just finished the last of 2007's batch. There were no sloes last year so we have been ekeing it out. We bottled it up at the beginning of October so will wait til just before Christmas to strain it... then enjoy!

[Lesley]

Wow Lesley, pear and vanilla vodka sounds delicious! Could you please post your recipe (if you use one?).

 

No recipe I'm afraid - we had some lovely ripe pears on our trees, I chopped them into small pieces and rammed them through a funnel into an empty vodka bottle (about one third of the bottle) made some syrup with vanilla seeds and chopped pods in, added that and then added vodka. It had been steeping since September.

[Lavenders_Blue]

Great, thanks Lesley. That's a close enough approximation to a recipe for me. Were they dessert type pears or cooking type pears? Just so I can take a guess at how much sugar to bung in.

[Lesley]

They were dessert pears and very sweet.

[Guest]

this year we've made...

 

wild red plum schnapps (foraged fruit)

wild yellow plum schnapps (foraged fruit)

wild cherry schnapps (foraged fruit)

peach schnapps (tinned peaches)

ordinary plum schnapps (plums from aldi)

sloe gin (foraged fruit)

damson gin (foraged fruit)

crabapple brandy (fruit from our tree)

got some rhubarb from the garden in the freezer to make some rhubarb schnapps too.

 

going to make some 'vin d'orange' tomorrow, will post recipe and pics once it's done

I got the recipe from Susan Loomis' book 'tarte tatin'. Sounds really yummy but you HAVE to leave it for at least a month and preferably a year so it's a good job we have plenty of other tipples to keep us going! Mind you, we've given quite a few away already! Just swapped 2 bottles for a christmas cake from krysia which is beautiful, will post a photo of it in a bit.