Description
A honey and spice liqueur recipe that dates back 400 years
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups clover honey
- 2 whole cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- zest of 1/2 lemon, remove with vegetable peeler
- 1/4 vanilla bean pod, sliced open
- 1 allspice berry
- 2 cups vodka
Instructions
- Pour honey into a saucepan
- Add cloves, cinnamon, lemon zest, vanilla, and allspice
- Warm (enough to thin, but keeping under a boil) and steep for 10 minutes
- Add vodka
- Remove from heat and let steep for a couple of hours
- Pour through strainer
- Pour into bottles
- Seal bottles
- Serve warm, at room temp, or chilled
Notes
If serving warm, add a small piece of chocolate and a small dab of butter
You can make this with spirytus, If using 2 cups of spirytus rather than 2 cups of vodka, add 2 cups of water to the honey before heating.