Thursday 8 October 2015

Fig Liqueur

With the fig trees covered in fresh leaves I decided to make some fig liqueur.  I picked 13 fig leaves of fairly equal size washed them and cooked them in syrup.


Fig Liqueur
The end result smelled and tasted like green fig preserve and I realised why the recipes for green fig preserve always require that one adds leaves to the cooking process. The leaves improve the flavour and colour of the preserve.

Fig Liqueur
After the syrup had cooled completely, I added the required spirits and bottled the beautiful light green liqueur that should be ready by Christmas.




1 comment:

  1. Sounds amazing! Perhaps a dash over some ice-cream as a pudding would be nice.

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